At approximately 1 p.m., the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office updated the evacuations in the county from the Lee Fire due to ...

New evacuations were called today in Garfield County, on the southern edge of the fire, close to Rifle. The fire is more than ...

The Meeker Volunteer Fire Department was the first agency to respond to a wildfire that grew into one of the largest in state ...

The Lee Fire grew to 120,650 acres Wednesday morning, an increase of nearly 4,000 acres since Tuesday, as hot, dry and windy ...

Crews continue to make progress on two large wildfires burning in Western Colorado, although fire officials said one ...

Firefighters are comfortable saying the town of Meeker is safe from the Lee and Elk Fires, but they had to do some serious ...

Five homes and 14 outbuildings have been lost in rural Rio Blanco and Garfield counties due to the Lee and Elk fires.

RIO BLANCO COUNTY, Colo. — The Lee Fire burning in Rio Blanco County has grown to more than 120,650 acres in just over a week, making it Colorado's fifth-largest wildfire on record.

The largest of several wildfires in northwestern Colorado grew to over 100,000 acres overnight, prompting new evacuations.

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 ...

These scans are done from an aircraft 10,000 ft above ground. Thermal data is collected to detect hot spots within active ...