Boulder County and the immediate vicinity is home to 8,955 properties at high risk of being touched by wildfire, with a combined value of nearly $1.8 billion, according to a national study released Thursday.
“Boulder is an area that has a unique geographical location,” said Thomas Jeffery, senior hazards scientist for CoreLogic, which released its 2013 Wildfire Hazard Risk Report on Thursday.
“You have a site where the city is kind of growing up against an area that is high risk. One of the things the report brings out is that you don’t have to have a home located in a forest or sitting on top of high risk, in order for that home to be threatened by wildfire.”
In compiling the numbers, CoreLogic considered not only the city of Boulder and its immediate neighbors, but also communities as far south as Golden and as far north as Lyons, which are considered part of the same Core Based Statistical Area.
Read more of the article at DailyCamera.com.
