Despite fire bans in June and July 2012, Colorado Army National Guard troops used ammunition and explosives at Camp Guernsey that led to the Sawmill Fire.
In Carbon County, Wyo., firefighters are evaluating areas north of the fire where they may have to defend buildings should the fire make a push in that direction.
Fire managers say storm cells moving in from the south mark the first time in over a week the weather forecast calls for conditions that may reduce fire activity.
"We've got a road here called the six-hundred road that has somewhere between a dozen and twenty structures, and it is right in the heart of the fire," Davis says.