Having burned over 160 square miles and with single day growth of over 60 square miles on Sept. 7, the Cameron Peak fire enters into the history books as one of the largest Colorado wildfires on record.
Due to the current cold front passing over Northern Colorado, the fire, which ignited on Aug. 13 near Chambers Lake roughly 40 miles west of Fort Collins, has been held at roughly 160 square miles or over 100,000 acres with 4% containment as of Sept. 8 at 6:00 p.m., according to the National Incident Information System, making it the fifth largest fire in Colorado history.
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The smoke plume from the Cameron Peak fire reached over 40,000 feet on Sunday, according to the National Weather Service’s Boulder forecast office, blocking out the sun and casting orange-red light over Fort Collins and surrounding areas on both Sunday and Monday. Photographers from The Collegian captured the event as well as other images of fires across Colorado.
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