Talk:Colorado Fire

Notability

Seeing as we've rolled into the quietest part of the 2023 fire year I thought I'd revisit some 2022 articles. I'm not sure this article's notable enough to be kept (WP:EVENT)—the fire burned less than 1,000 acres and only 3 structures, with no injuries or deaths. They aren't official criteria in any way, but the Wikiproject Wildfire guidelines are one metric to use:

1. Fire exceeds 1,000 acres (4.0 km²)
2. Fire causes fatalities or numerous injuries
3. Fire causes destruction of a large number of structures.
4. Fire results in large and widespread evacuations.

None of these apply; the fire was most notable for occurring out of the usual fire season, but that's not enough to really support a standalone article when 2022 California wildfires exists. Let me know what others think? Penitentes (talk) 15:52, 3 January 2023 (UTC)

Correction, there was one injury as a result of the Colorado fire,. It also provides a link and awareness of the very large scale, Sobrante’s Fire which as the article states, touched, skirted that previous fire, which lasted for months, resulting in one fatality, an X amount of injuries, decimating a whole community in its path., Lucky, there was not more and injuries, loss of life and structure damage only in the Colorado fire for the fact that the prevailing wind had switched direction that evening and blew a massive fire storm right into the ocean, otherwise, it would be a very different story…. 98.97.58.52 (talk) 23:19, 22 June 2023 (UTC)

One injury is not numerous injuries, and I think the Soberanes Fire article can speak for itself there - this article should be about what did happen, not what might have happened. It just didn't produce very significant impacts other than temporary closures of some state lands. Penitentes (talk) 20:45, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

Reiterating the above - I would like to redirect this to the 2022 California wildfires page, where we can re-add it to the list of wildfires and include some of the context that exists in the article body (such as evacuations and closures). I don't think its impacts (<1,000 acres, <1,000 evacuations, only one structure destroyed) qualify it as notable enough for its own article. Please let me know if you have any objections or in a few days I will be WP:BOLD and carry out the redirect. Penitentes (talk) 20:43, 28 March 2024 (UTC)