Public situational awareness · unofficial

Aspen Acres Fire Dashboard

Current fire status, protective actions, maps, road closures, and visual explainers for Pueblo County communities — in plain English, with the age of every number shown.

—acres mapped

—contained

—perimeter mapped

—evacuation zones

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Your situation

Where you stand right now

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Your location

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What this means right now

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The map

Fire map & layers

Toggle layers to see heat detections, evacuation zones, road closures, and other regional fires.

Perimeters come from official mapping flights and can lag the actual fire edge by hours. Satellite detections are ~375 m pixels, not exact flame locations. Persistent detections near south Pueblo are an industrial site (steel mill), not wildfire.

Official notices

Evacuations, closures & weather

Official wording is quoted verbatim. Zones and closures can change faster than any map layer — always verify with the sources at the bottom of this page.

Evacuation information

Always verify evacuation status with the sheriff and county emergency management.

Road closures

Weather & fire weather

Explore & understand

How this fire has behaved

Visual explainers built from the same official data — history and terrain context, not predictions.

Fire Story — animated replay Watch six days of satellite detections and perimeter growth, hour by hour, plus trend charts. 3D terrain flyover The perimeter and heat detections draped over real mountain terrain, with a guided camera tour.

Fire summary

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What changed recently

What to watch next

Other fires in the region

Prepare

Get ready calmly, ahead of time

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Medications (from a pharmacist)

Sources & trust

Where this data comes from

Every source with its freshness — and a way to tell us what would make this page more useful.

Data sources & freshness

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Aspen Acres Fire — family update

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What to do now

What we're watching

Official evacuation orders and emergency alerts always take priority over this page.

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Made by a friendly Pueblo neighborhood pharmacist trying to make wildfire information easier to understand. This public dashboard is unofficial and for situational awareness only — it may contain delayed, incomplete, or incorrect data and may not reflect the latest official emergency orders. It does not replace 911, local emergency alerts, sheriff orders, or evacuation notices. Fire perimeters and satellite hotspots may lag real conditions; wind and weather can change quickly. If in doubt, prepare early — and always follow Pueblo County, sheriff, fire, emergency management, and official evacuation guidance.