Rain showers will start Sunday across Colorado, including on the drought-stricken Western Slope where multiple wildfires are burning on hundreds of square miles, and continue through at least midweek, ...

The Lee fire southwest of Meeker, Colorado in Rio Blanco County has become the sixth largest wildfire in Colorado history, eclipsing the 2012 High Park fire, which burned 87,284 acres west of Fort ...

The Lee Fire near Meeker is now over 116,000 acres, fire maps show, and has surpassed the Spring Creek Fire of 2018 as the state's fifth-largest wildfire. Over 1,000 firefighters and a dozen aircraft ...

Few states require building with fire-resistant materials, but some in the Mountain West are in the process of changing that.

DENVER (KDVR) — Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency on Thursday as wildfires are continuing to burn more than 193,000 acres along the Western Slope. Polis signed an executive order on ...

DENVER (KDVR) — The Lee Fire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is officially one of the largest that the state has ever seen. According to the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, four ...

A grass fire was reported near US 36 & Cherryvale Road in Boulder County, Colorado, on Friday. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office provided an update on X. Boulder Fire-rescue shared the map where the ...

A slow-growing, nearly contained wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is now the fourth-largest on state record, according to fire officials. As of Tuesday night, the 90% contained Lee fire ...

Fueled by hot summer weather and persistent drought conditions across the western half of the state, wildfires as of Aug. 8 had burned more than 100,000 acres in Colorado in 2025. By that time it was ...

The Lee Fire, the largest of several wildfires in northwestern Colorado, grew to over 100,000 acres overnight, prompting new evacuations, state fire officials said. On the plus side, fire crews have ...