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May 5, 2021 · The East Troublesome Fire, Cameron Peak Fire and Pine Gulch Fire all burned in 2020 and are the 3 largest in Colorado history. Here's a look at other historic blazes.
- Allison Sylte
- 1 min
- 2020 Cameron Peak, Larimer County — 208,663 acres — This fire is active and may be updated.
- 2020 East Troublesome, Grand County — 192,560 acres — This fire is active and may be updated.
- 2020 Pine Gulch, near Grand Junction — 139,007 acres, no deaths, caused by lightning — This fire is active and may be updated.
- 2002 Hayman — 137,760 acres, five firefighter deaths, 133 homes burned and 600 total structures destroyed, arson caused.
Oct 16, 2020 · The Cameron Peak Fire is the largest wildfire in Colorado history. It began on August 13, 2020, and burned 208,913 acres of the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in western Larimer County.
The wildfire was the largest to ever burn in Colorado's history, and became the first wildfire to surpass 200,000 acres. The wildfire burned concurrently with the East Troublesome Fire near Kremmling, Colorado, torching a combined 400,000 acres. [2]
The 2020 East Troublesome Fire was a massive and destructive wildfire, and the second-largest in the history of the U.S. state of Colorado. Named for the East Fork of Troublesome Creek, close to the fire's point of origin in the Arapaho National Forest, the fire burned 193,812 acres (78,433 ha) between its ignition on October 14, 2020, and its ...
16 of the top 20 largest wildfires wildfires have occurred in the last 13 years (since 2008)
Oct 20, 2020 · The Pine Gulch fire — which has settled in around 139,000 acres, 2,000 acres more than Hayman — became the largest fire in recorded state history earlier this summer. Then the Cameron Peak fire smashed past that.
