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| Aug 16, 2026 | Aspen Acres fire, flooding are one of first big tests of Colorado’s insurance reforms: ‘How much more can a person handle?’ | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
BEULAH — Bob Griggs’ boots crunched across the black cinders and ash covering his 40-acre plot of land in southwestern Colorado’s Beulah Valley last week as he surveyed the bare spot where his hous... |
| Jul 19, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: 12 injuries reported in Willow fire burning near Leadville; Aspen Acres fire grows to 100,200 acres | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Growth has slowed on many wildfires burning across Colorado, but crews are still working to secure the fires’ perimeters.
At least 12 people have been injured by the Willow fire burning near Leadvi... |
| Jul 18, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Aspen Acres surpasses 100,000 acres, now 61% contained | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s largest active wildfire surpassed 100,000 acres as crews managed to contain more than half of the fire line as of Saturday morning.
The Aspen Acres fire grew by less than a square mile o... |
| Jul 17, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Nearly 16,000 Coloradans still evacuated, most by Aspen Acres fire | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Nearly 16,000 people were still under mandatory evacuation orders Friday night, most of whom live near the Aspen Acres fire in southern Colorado.
Gov. Jared Polis’ office released an update about C... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Aspen Acres containment grows to 48% | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Firefighters in southern Colorado secured more containment on the Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties, officials said Thursday night.
Crews increased containment on the 99,820-acre wildf... |
| Jul 16, 2026 | Power company’s equipment was ‘substantial factor’ in starting Aspen Acres fire, lawsuit alleges | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A southern Colorado power company’s equipment was “a substantial factor” in starting and fueling the Aspen Acres fire, the state’s most destructive wildfire since the Marshall fire in 2021, a new l... |
| Jul 15, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: New evacuations for Elk fire near Lake City, east of Gold Mountain fire | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A recently sparked wildfire burning to the east of Ouray’s Gold Mountain fire triggered mandatory evacuations in Hinsdale County on Wednesday afternoon.
The Elk fire, ignited by lightning Thursday,... |
| Jul 14, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: New Aspen Acres fire evacuations in Huerfano County; Steamboat deploys snowmaking guns as precaution | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Huerfano County officials ordered mandatory evacuations related to the Aspen Acres fire on Tuesday morning, while more displaced Pueblo County residents were allowed to return home for the first ti... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Will Colorado see its worst wildfire season since 2020? | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado is on track to see its worst wildfire season since 2020, when flames raced across nearly 1,163 square miles, but the start of monsoon season could dampen this year’s infernos. A Colorado N... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Gov. Polis declares disaster emergency for Green Ridge fire near Steamboat Springs | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Two new wildfires sparked in northern Colorado on Sunday, one of which prompted mandatory evacuations and a disaster declaration from Gov. Jared Polis.
The Green Ridge and Fishhook fires join four ... |
| Jul 13, 2026 | Marshall Fire-ravaged parks in Superior get boost from Colorado Lottery | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
After the Marshall Fire’s destruction, a project to rebuild three parks in Superior was chosen as a winner in the Colorado Lottery’s 2026 Starburst Awards.
In the 2021 Marshall Fire, more than 1,00... |
| Jul 6, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Aspen Acres fire burns more than 260 homes in Pueblo, Custer counties | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
More than 260 homes have been destroyed by the Aspen Acres fire in Pueblo and Custer counties, the sheriffs said Monday afternoon.
The state’s largest ongoing wildfire, the Aspen Acres fire, jumped... |
| Jul 1, 2026 | Colorado wildfires: Aspen Acres fire surges to 48,000 acres in size; Snyder fire is 49% contained | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
New mandatory evacuations were ordered Wednesday afternoon for the Aspen Acres fire burning in Pueblo and Custer counties as it nearly doubled in size to nearly 48,000 acres, surging past the Snyde... |
| Apr 30, 2026 | Colorado will face a ‘very challenging’ wildfire season as drought covers entire state, fire leaders say | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Colorado’s dry winter and abnormally warm spring will translate to a high risk for large and destructive wildfires this summer, state leaders warned Thursday.
“We are facing a very challenging fire... |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Colorado expands tree-cutting along highways to fight wildfire threat | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Dry conditions, rising heat and road traffic disruptions have prompted Colorado officials to expand forest tree-clearing and grassland mowing along highways in an attempt to prevent wildfires from ... |
| Feb 18, 2026 | Wildfire on Colorado’s Eastern Plains contained after burning more than 5,000 acres | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
A wildfire that raced across miles of prairie and farmland on Colorado’s Eastern Plains is now contained, officials said Wednesday afternoon.
The County Road 169 fire was first reported around noon... |
| Jan 20, 2026 | Boulder County fire districts apply for aid as funding dries up | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Twenty Boulder County firefighting agencies applied for money to replace aging equipment and fund new technology in 2025 — the most since the county’s emergency services grant was first offered in ... |
| Aug 31, 2025 | Protective of a neighborhood’s unique character, some Broomfield residents raise concerns over new state-mandated wildfire code | “It’s not that wildfire mitigation and prevention isn’t important to us — we would do anything to protect not only our family and our land but our neighbors’ and community as well,” Melissa Mossoni, a Wilcox resident, said. “But it feels li... |
| Aug 29, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: State’s worst fire season since 2020 sees 218,000 acres scorched | The below-average snowpack and lack of rain fueled extreme drought across western Colorado this year, allowing fires that sparked to spread rapidly, Stevens-Rumann said.
Fire behavior analysts previously said the Western Slope’s drought put... |
| Aug 26, 2025 | Colorado’s fire departments need more firefighters and more money for equipment, report says | An additional 1,121 career and 1,142 volunteer firefighters over the next two years
753 new and replacement apparatuses over the next two years
$25,282,489 over the next two years to buy needed equipment
Even while stretched thin, Colorado’... |
| Aug 21, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: Evacuations downgraded in new Larimer County fire | Five wildfires burning on Colorado’s Western Slope — the Lee, Elk, Derby, Stoner Mesa and Crosho fires — have together burned more than 165,000 acres, or about 258 square miles.
The fires have threatened hundreds of homes, evacuated Colorad... |
| Aug 20, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: Derby fire triples in size overnight, prompts mandatory evacuations | At 137,755 acres, the Lee fire is the fifth-largest wildfire in Colorado on record, according to the state’s Division of Fire Prevention and Control. It’s also 5 acres away from surpassing the fourth-largest — the Hayman fire, which consume... |
| Aug 18, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: Containment grows on Lee fire as burn area approaches fourth largest on record | It’s currently the fifth-largest wildfire on record in Colorado and approaching the fourth-place position, according to the state’s Division of Fire Prevention and Control.
On its worst days the Lee fire spread at a pace of 4 miles per hour... |
| Aug 11, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: Lee fire grows to state’s fifth-largest wildfire on record | The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office on Sunday alerted residents in areas north of downtown Rifle to prepare for a possible evacuation order. That came a day after the Colorado Department of Corrections evacuated nearly 180 incarcerated peo... |
| Aug 10, 2025 | Colorado wildfires: Mandatory evacuations possible for Garfield County as Lee Fire persists | With winds coming from the north and northwest, the area around Rifle and Interstate 70 is expected to see smoke from the fire, which was caused by lightning. Rifle elected to close the Rifle Mountain Park “due to poor air quality in the ar... |
| May 19, 2025 | As Colorado wildfires worsen, Sen. John Hickenlooper’s bill aims to reduce risks. But it worries some environmentalists. | “Anything that puts power back in the hands of the government and away from the people is a negative,” said Will Roush, the executive director of Wilderness Workshop, a public lands advocacy group based in Carbondale.
The U.S. Senate Commit... |
| Apr 25, 2025 | Federal agencies are hiring seasonal firefighters in Colorado as summer approaches | “We’re not sure the status of that, but as of now, they are ready to go and be deployed,” Polis said of the AmeriCorps workers earmarked for Colorado.
Polis gathered with Colorado fire and public safety leaders to discuss the wildfire forec... |
| Mar 2, 2025 | Forest Service cuts exacerbate wildfire threats in Colorado, fire officials say: “We’re decreasing our ability to respond.” | “It’s really hard to wrap our minds around,” said Mike Morgan, director of the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control. “If I could understand it, I would at least understand what we could all be doing to prepare for what it might ... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Crime and Public Safety | Colorado sending aid to California for Los Angeles wildfires | Originally Published: January 8, 2025 at 1:25 PM MST |
| Jul 30, 2024 | How AI and satellite imaging are helping detect wildfires in Colorado before they grow | The tests were a success, said Zach Tolby, the Fire Weather Testbed manager. The Next Generation Fire System has been online for about a year in experimental form, he said, but agencies are now beginning to use it in real time.
The tool pro... |
| Apr 20, 2024 | Crime and Public Safety | Carbon Valley residents may see smoke from Banner Lakes State Wildlife Area burn | CPW works closely with other agencies, such as the Colorado Air Pollution Control Division, the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control, and local authorities in developing and implementing any burn project.
Prescribed fire smoke m... |
| Oct 22, 2022 | Fire-razed lots in Colorado are going for up to $1.5 million as buyers bet on recovery from a wildfire that destroyed 1,000 homes. The prices signal that the appeal of the mountains still trumps climate risks. | Wildfires are a growing threat in densely populated areas of Colorado such as Boulder County, where residents are rebuilding after a wildfire destroyed nearly 1,100 homes last December. Michael Ciaglo/Getty Images This story is available ex... |
| May 3, 2022 | Is artificial intelligence the next tool to fight wildfires in the West? | With wildfires becoming bigger and more destructive as the West dries out and heats up, agencies and officials tasked with preventing and battling the blazes could soon have a new tool to add to their arsenal of prescribed burns, pick axes,... |
| Feb 11, 2022 | Politics
Politics | A bevy of wildfire-related bills aim at insurance, burn scars and awareness in Colorado legislature | Stephanie Conners, like more than 350 of her neighbors near Grand Lake, didn’t lose her house during Colorado’s traditional fire season.
It was October 2020, and the East Troublesome fire was bearing down on the first home Conners and her f... |