Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency for the Crosho Fire in South Routt and Rio Blanco counties Wednesday evening.

Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency for the Crosho Fire in South Routt and Rio Blanco counties Wednesday evening.

Gov. Jared Polis has declared a disaster emergency for the Crosho Fire, which has burned 1,700 acres in Rio Blanco and Routt counties since it started on Aug. 11.

Wildfire officials say the fires that have burned more than 130,000 acres in Rio Blanco County have destroyed five homes.

At least 15 fires have burned more than 198,000 acres across Delta, Dolores, Garfield, Grand, Mesa, Moffat, Montrose, and Rio Blanco counties, as well as in parts of eastern Utah.

FEMA has announced the authorized use of federal funds to help with firefighting costs for the Oak Fire burning in Archuleta ...

Together, five wildfires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope have consumed hundreds of square miles, destroying at least five ...

The Crosho Fire, west of Phippsburg and Yampa, spread to over 1,700 acres, according to a Wednesday afternoon update from Steamboat Springs Fire Rescue. The fire more than tripled in size since ...

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

Information will be updated as it becomes available: Crosho Fire Update: Routt County road closures as of 7:30 p.m. on ...

Hard to fathom that Colorado can consider itself lucky to have so many firefighting resources at its disposal when the devastation is so profound.