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Upper Arkansas River Valley Including Lake County and Chaffee County; Teller County/Rampart Range Including Pikes Peak and Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument; Fremont County Including Canon City/Howard/Texas Creek; Eastern San Juan Mountains and La Garita Mountains Including Wolf Creek Pass and Creede; San Luis Valley Including Alamosa/Del Norte/Fort Garland/Saguache

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Severity Severe
Urgency Expected
Certainty Likely

Details

* AFFECTED AREA...Fire Weather Zones 220, 221, 222, 223, 224, 227 and 228.
* WINDS...Southwest 20 to 30 mph with gusts up to 55 mph today across the higher elevations and gusts up to 40 mph across the lower elevations. Southwest winds 15 to 30 mph with gusts up to 40 mph on Tuesday.
* RELATIVE HUMIDITY...As low as 5 percent.
* IMPACTS...Extreme fire danger is expected. Fires will catch and spread rapidly and erratically.
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