Colorado wildfires: Containment grows on Lee fire burning near Meeker

One wildfire burning on Colorado’s Western Slope is less than 300 acres away from becoming the state’s fourth-largest fire on record.

The 137,485-acre Lee fire burning between Meeker and Rifle in Rio Blanco County is Colorado’s fifth-largest wildfire.

Colorado’s fourth-largest fire on record, the 137,760-acre Hayman fire that sparked in 2002, is only 275 acres larger than the Lee fire. The Lee fire is also just over 1,500 acres from surpassing the 139,007-acre Pine Gulch fire from 2020, Colorado’s third-largest wildfire.

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Lee and Elk fires near Meeker

The lightning-sparked Lee and Elk fires started on opposite sides of Meeker in Rio Blanco County more than two weeks ago and together have consumed hundreds of square mile