Fire-Adapted Boulder
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According to the U.S. Forest Service’s Wildfire Risk to Communities tool, Boulder ranks in the top 3 percent of communities whose lives, properties, and community assets are at risk due to wildfire. Boulder’s existential risk is that a fast-moving wildfire on its western edge could become a wildfire-initiated community conflagration (WICC). The central vulnerability is not the initial wildfire alone, but the high likelihood of the fire to ignite homes and then spread from structure to structure faster than evacuation and suppression systems can respond, leading to large scale loss of properties and lives.
