Pearl Fire grows to 138 acres, mandatory evacuations ordered

LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The Larimer County Sheriff’s Office issued mandatory evacuations for a new wildfire, called the Pearl Fire, that sparked Monday morning near Crystal Lakes.

The sheriff’s office said the fire has burned an estimated 138 acres as of 4 p.m., with no containment. 

• Crystal Lakes, south of Black Mountain and north of Lake Erie.
• Nearly to Highway 14 (Poudre Canyon Road) on the south side of Black Mountain, and west toward County Road 103. 
• North of Black Mountain to the Wyoming state line.

Residents are being told to evacuate immediately.

• The area of Lake Erie and Mitchell Ditch.

An area of Wyoming directly across the state line is also under voluntary evacuation status: from the state line to Sportsman Lake Road on the north, Ashby Loop on the west and Highway 287 on the east.

Residents in voluntary evacuation zones are told to gather their belongings and prepare to leave.

An evacuation center at Livermore Community Hall, at 2044 W. County Road 74E, will close at 6:30 p.m. An overnight evacuation center will open at Cache La Poudre Middle School, 3515 CR 54G in Laporte.

A large animal evacuation center is open at The Ranch in Loveland, 5280 Arena Circle.

For more information on evacuations and community resources, call the Joint Information Center at 970-980-2500. 

The sheriff’s office said multiple local agencies are responding to the fire as of 1 p.m. and that air resources have been ordered. 

About 11:30 a.m., the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a post on the social media platform X that they had received reports of a smoke plume in the Crystal Lakes area and that fire personnel were responding.

The evacuation map is below:

This is a developing situation. This article will be updated as information is confirmed.