At least 100 homes have been destroyed by the East Troublesome fire, officials said Wednesday.

Crews continued to take advantage of the snowfall that fell earlier this week and allowed assessors to access impact zones.

“There is no firm number and the assessing process will take awhile,” an official from the emergency management hotline number who declined to give their name said. “We expect to have the official number later in the week.”

On Tuesday, Grand County Sheriff Brett Schroetlin said his office has identified about 100 homes that have been destroyed because of the fire.

“We’re in the range of 100 or so,” Schroetlin said during a morning update.

The sheriff indicated that number can easily rise.

“We’re finding more (destroyed homes) every direction we turn around. We get down these roads and (it) looks like things are looking up, and then we find a house that is an unfortunate mishap,” Schroetlin said.

The sheriff added the most impacted areas of the fire were the Columbine Lake area and county roads 41, 48 and 49.

One week after the East Troublesome fire exploded and expanded over 100,000 acres in a day, officials say the blaze has engulfed 193,774 acres, which is up 1,214 acres from Tuesday.

The added acreage can be attributed to aircraft being able to survey the area for the first time in several days.

There’s been “no growth since the 25th,” said Noel Livingston, a fire incident commander, during a morning briefing on Wednesday. 

Despite the current moisture on the ground, which has helped fire crews suppress the flames, officials continue to say the snow might not end the fire season.

“Overall the snow was a blessing and really slowed the fire activity … but our fire managers really want the public to know that this was a season slowing event, but not necessarily a season ending event,” said Lauren Durocher, a public information officer with the East Troublesome fire information management team. 

Weather officials are forecasting “sunny and clear conditions for (about a week),” said Evan Direnzo, a meteorologist from the National Weather Service in Boulder. 

“Highs are expected to be in the high 50s, low 60s after Saturday but until then it’ll keep progressively warming up.”

And despite some community members still wondering the status of their homes, Schroetlin is asking everyone to think in a community mindset instead of an individual.

“I ask as a community to look at us as a whole … realize that your community as a whole needs you to function, so I ask us to have this community impact (mindset) moving forward,” he said Tuesday.