Editor’s note: All wildfire statistics are updated to reports published July 24. Due to the rapidly changing nature of national disasters, up-to-date information can be found on the National Interagency Fire Center’s website.
Eight large wildfires are currently burning across Colorado.
The Aspen Acres fire, the seventh-largest in state history, has destroyed more than 800 structures so far in the Custer and Pueblo counties. The Gold Mountain Fire has reached 27% containment near Ouray, Colorado. Statewide, fire crews are working under conditions shaped by the record-low snowpack, which totaled as little as 22% of normal by early April…