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The Marshall Fire was a destructive wildfire and urban conflagration that started on December 30, 2021, shortly after 11:00 a.m. MST, [3] as a grass fire in Boulder County, Colorado. [4] The fire caused the evacuation of 37,500 people, killed two people, and destroyed more than 991 structures to become the most destructive fire in Colorado ...
The Boulder Office of Emergency Management said an overnight shelter was opened after evacuation orders covered 8,000 homes and 7,000 structures. Colorado wildfire forces evacuation orders for ...
Jan. 5—Officials this morning lifted the evacuation orders for most of Superior and all unincorporated Boulder County addresses following the Marshall Fire. As of 6 a.m. Wednesday, residents are ...
Although small, this fire was forced the evacuation of 463 homes near Breckenridge, Colorado. 2018: 10,330 acres (4,180 ha) Stateline fire: Las Animas County, Colorado and Union County, New Mexico: Started in New Mexico and burned into Colorado. Blackened over 28,000 acres. 2018: 42,795 acres (17,319 ha) MM 117 fire: El Paso County, Colorado
Officials said the rapidly moving fires likely destroyed at least 500 homes in Boulder County, as well as a hotel and a shopping center, according to The Associated Press.
According to the National Interagency Fire Center, as of July 1, 2021, at least 32,860 acres (13,300 ha) of land had burned in at least 337 wildland fires across the state. [3] [4] Hundreds of homes were burned, and the cities of Louisville and Superior were evacuated, during the Boulder County fires in late December. [5]
Evacuation orders were lifted Sunday evening for nearly 20,000 people after a wildfire burned in the Boulder, Colorado, area, officials said.
It was surpassed in 2021, when the Marshall Fire destroyed over 1,000 homes in Boulder County, in Superior and Louisville. [5] The evacuation area covered 94,000 acres (147 sq mi; 380 km 2) acres, 13,000 homes and 38,000 people. Three shelters were established in the area, including Elbert County Fairgrounds, which accepted humans, pets, and ...