All evacuation notices and orders for the Oak Fire were lifted as of Wednesday, according to Pagosa Fire Protection District Chief Robert Bertram. The fire was 75 acres and 47% contained as of

More than half a dozen wildfires continued to burn across Colorado Monday, including a new fire that sparked on Sunday afternoon near Pagosa Springs.

A Colorado prison was evacuated because of a fast-growing wildfire that’s already one of the largest in state history, officials said. The spread of the Lee Fire in western Colorado forced the relocation of 179 incarcerated people at the Rifle Correctional Center to the Buena Vista Correctional Complex on Aug.