Thirty thousand people were reported evacuated in Arizona, 10,000 of them from the Show Low area, where flames were feeding on dense ponderosa pine.

Joe Gacioch, speaking for Allstate in Phoenix, said so far the company had registered 100 fire-related claims of which five were total burnouts. He said adjusters were unable to get in to the affected areas.

Carole Walker with the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association in Englewood, Colo. said there was no additional information because adjusters were hampered there as well.

Yesterday estimates from Ms. Walker and other insurance sources put the insured property damage in the two states at more than $55 million so far.

In Arizona, the total burned acreage was put at 330,000 acres. According to the Fire Service, the Hayman Fire southwest of Denver has taken 137,000 acres destroying 133 homes, one commercial building and 484 outbuildings.

President Bush has issued disaster declarations for parts of both states. In Arizona today, the Apache and Navajo counties and Fort Apache Indian Reservation were given a disaster designation that makes them eligible for federal aid and low cost loans.

The Associated Press reported that so far the total fire acreage has reached 500,000 and that 462 homes have been destroyed.