Started May 13, this 22,400-acre fire was located in the San Juan National Forest north of the Piedra River near Pagosa Springs, Colorado.

A pre-evacuation order was issued Tuesday evening, June 26, for 2400 households in southwestern Boulder proper.

[12] In March, the 4,140 acre fire took the lives of three residents and destroyed 23 homes, one mile east of Foxton, Colorado.

[15][16][17] The High Park fire was declared 100 percent contained on June 30, 2012, and all related evacuation orders were ended.

[18] Reported June 17, 2012, the Springer fire, in Eleven Mile Canyon south of Lake George, burned over 1,100 acres.

On June 23, 2012, the Woodland Heights fire in Estes Park, Colorado was started by a power line rubbing against a pine tree.

The fire spread to 27.3 acres, burning 22 houses and two outbuildings in the Rocky Mountain National Park.

[20][21] Estes Valley Fire Protection District's proactive response, along with the extra resources afforded by a cost-sharing agreement with Larimer County, were credited with preventing the fire spreading into a major disaster on the scale of some of the year's other wildfires in the state, EVFPD board president Sue Doylen calling it one of the wildfire season's success stories.

Although this fire burned a very sparsely populated area, nonetheless at least 11 structures were lost, including four houses.

[24] The Pine Ridge fire was a large wildfire caused by a lightning strike that was detected in the rugged Little Bookcliffs area at 1:57 pm, MDT, on Wednesday, June 27, 2012 ten miles northeast of Grand Junction in Mesa County, Colorado.

The fire started at a generally small size of twenty acres and rapidly grew uncontrollably due to the low humidity and high temperatures.

[25] On Tuesday, October 23, a wildfire was reported around 1:30 pm about a quarter mile south of Wetmore, Colorado.

Over the next few days, the high winds subsided, allowing firefighters to achieve full containment on the fire by October 29.

[26] An illegal campfire sparked the Fern Lake fire in Rocky Mountain National Park on Tuesday, October 9.