The Upper Colorado River Interagency Fire Management Unit is responding to eight separate fires in the area after lightning strikes overnight.
Smoke from the Jones Fire, which has grown from 10 acres to more than 14,450 at the time of writing, in less than five hours, can be seen from the Grand Valley, closest to Fruita.
The fire is in a remote area one mile from the Colorado and Utah state line, and two miles southeast of the Colorado River in the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area, with no structures currently threatened.
Mesa County remains in a Stage Two fire ban amid high winds and dry weather.