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Douglas County lifts fire restrictions after recent rainfall

Updated 2 days ago

Douglas County and the Town of Castle Rock lifted fire restrictions Tuesday following recent rainfall across the area, officials announced. “While we have seen an...

Tapped: As fire risk climbs, Colorado faces threat to drinking water

Updated 2 weeks ago

Specialists surveying Colorado’s forests know this year will be challenging. Snow melted too quickly, strong winds dried out the trees, and the early signs of...

What does Colorado's first statewide wildfire building code mean for homeowners?

Updated 4 weeks ago

Starting this year, Colorado is the first Western state after California with a statewide, mandatory building code for structures in the wildland-urban interface, where communities...

State touts enhanced firefighting assets as drought drives higher fire danger

Updated 1 month ago

State officials warned Thursday of elevated wildfire risk this summer, particularly in June and July across the Front Range and western Colorado, as severe drought...

New U.S. Wildland Fire Service key federal partner in Colorado wildfire response

Updated 1 month ago

Denver public safety power shut-offs 'a last resort,' Xcel says

Updated 1 month ago

Evacuations ordered for wildfire on western edge of Fort Collins

Updated 1 month ago

4,200-acre fire prompts evacuation order near Hanover

Updated 1 month ago

Xcel Energy power shutoffs to occur Wednesday in western Colorado, San Luis Valley

Updated 2 months ago

Schwachheim fire containment decreases to 50% as charred area increases

Updated 2 months ago

Naturally caused wildfire surpasses 1,000 acres near Colorado-New Mexico border, more firefighting resources requested

Updated 2 months ago

Polis pushes back after Trump administration again denies federal disaster aid

Updated 2 months ago

Evacuation orders lifted for Boulder, Larimer County fires

Updated 2 months ago

DougCo offering homeowners $25,000 fire mitigation grants

Updated 2 months ago

Xcel says $1.85B plan aims to make Public Safety Power Shutoffs rarer

Updated 2 months ago

Deliberately shutting off power to residents and businesses is a last-resort tool, according to the chief of Colorado's largest utility company. The tool — called...

A perfect storm: Pine beetles thriving following warm, dry winter in Colorado

Updated 2 months ago

The warmest winter in Colorado history could lead to record-breaking proliferation of a tiny insect, about the size of a grain of rice, that has...

Power grid shutdowns in Colorado bring protection — and problems

Updated 2 months ago

A downed power line in Sunshine Canyon in the mountains west of Boulder in December posed an electrocution risk to firefighters and bystanders after Xcel...

Aurora wildland fire contained at Buckley Space Force Base

Updated 2 months ago

A wildland fire burned Sunday morning on the southwest end of Buckley Space Force Base in Aurora, authorities said. The fire no longer posed a...

Jeffco adopts updates to wildfire resiliency code

Updated 2 months ago

Colorado weather a 'magnitude worse' than historic Waldo, Black Forest fire seasons, official says

Updated 2 months ago

Denver area smoke blowing in from Nebraska fires

Updated 2 months ago

CDOT pivots from snowplowing to wildfire mitigation along highways

Updated 2 months ago

Aurora grass fire started by cooking at homeless camp, investigators say

Updated 3 months ago

Near-record temperatures in Denver on Friday as dangerous fire weather conditions persist

Updated 3 months ago

Xcel Energy: Power shutoff 'likely' Saturday in Boulder, Jefferson counties

Updated 3 months ago

High winds force closures of I-25 and I-70, overturned semi-trucks, flight delays, power outages

Updated 3 months ago

With high winds, fire danger in Denver, Xcel says outages possible

Updated 3 months ago

U.S. energy secretary warns Colorado's energy policies could drive up prices, deter businesses

Updated 3 months ago

Red Flag Warning issued in Denver Tuesday due to critical wildfire risk

Updated 3 months ago

Another day of critical wildfire danger is on tap for Denver and the Front Range on Tuesday. The National Weather Service in Boulder has issued...

Fire danger risk returns this week across northeast Colorado

Updated 3 months ago

After a wave of winter snow late last week, the warm, dry and windy weather returns this week, bringing with it elevated fire danger risk,...

Colorado Attorney General, environmental groups challenge EPA rejection of state’s haze plan

Updated 3 months ago

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser and several environmental organizations have filed separate petitions in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, challenging the...