Aspen Acres Fire, Colorado — 102,004 Acres, 77% Contained

Aspen Acres Fire

102,004 acres

77% contained

Colorado

The Aspen Acres Fire is on the current NIFC active-incident list at 102,004 acres and 77% contained, 53 days after it was discovered on Jun 29.

Source: the federal NIFC/WFIGS Incident Locations feed, re-read every 30 minutes. Last read 2026-08-22 03:13 UTC. Nothing on this page is estimated.

The numbers

StateColorado

Size102,004 acres

Containment77%

CauseHuman

DiscoveredJun 29

Personnel assigned153

Day-by-day, as we read it

Date	Acres	Contained	Change
2026-08-09	101,965	72%
2026-08-10	101,965	72%	no change
2026-08-11	102,004	72%	+39 ac
2026-08-12	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-13	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-14	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-15	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-16	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-17	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-18	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-19	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-20	102,004	72%	no change
2026-08-21	102,004	77%	no change
2026-08-22	102,004	77%	no change

Trails within 100 km

Garden of the Gods Main Loop — 97 km away, live AQI and conditions

Distance is not the whole question — smoke carries much further than fire, and trailheads and roads close well before flames reach them. Each trail page shows live AQI; check the managing agency and inciweb.nwcg.gov for closures before you drive.

What does “77% contained” mean here?

Containment is the share of the fire's perimeter that crews have a control line around — not how much of the fire is out. A 95% contained fire can still put up plenty of smoke; a 0% contained fire is still growing freely.

Where do these numbers come from?

The NIFC/WFIGS Incident Locations feed — the official interagency record used by fire managers. We re-read it every 30 minutes and stamp the read time. The day-by-day table is our own record of those reads; acres sometimes drop when a perimeter is remapped, and we label that rather than smoothing it out.

Can I still hike near it?

Check the managing agency and inciweb.nwcg.gov for closures first — they close roads and trailheads well ahead of the fire. Then check the live AQI on the trail page itself; smoke is usually what decides the day, not flames.