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Volunteer firefighter Jim Siewertsen, left, works with Tony Donoghue, middle, and assistant chief Jim McCoy, from North Fork Hearth Safety district, on placing water on sizzling spots on burned townhomes in Superior on Jan. 1, 2022. Regardless of the latest snowfall on the bottom sizzling spots can smolder for days and even weeks which may doubtlessly reignite fires.
The variety of houses destroyed within the Marshall hearth now exceeds 1,000 with a complete worth of greater than $500 million, cementing its standing as probably the most harmful wildfire in Colorado historical past, in accordance with the most recent harm evaluation by Boulder County.
Boulder County officers on Thursday launched up to date tallies of the variety of the homes and companies that have been destroyed or broken by final week’s wildfire, and for the primary time offered a property-value breakdown of the losses for Louisville, Superior and unincorporated areas.
Authorities nonetheless are counting the variety of houses destroyed or broken by the fireplace and the robust winds that fueled it on the afternoon of Dec. 30, so the price of the destruction may improve.
Two folks have been reported lacking, and on Wednesday authorities discovered partial human stays within the 5900 block of Marshall Street. That particular person’s identification has not been publicly launched. A second lacking particular person has been recognized by household as 91-year-old Nadine Turnbull, of Superior, however to this point officers have stated their lacking particular person investigation within the 1500 block of South 76th Road in Superior is ongoing.
The variety of burned houses now stands at 1,084, and the fireplace broken one other 149 residential buildings, in accordance with a Thursday information launch. The Boulder County Assessor’s Workplace positioned the overall worth of residential harm at $513,212,589, the information launch stated.
Seven industrial buildings have been destroyed and 30 have been broken, the most recent evaluation decided. The county continues to be counting the estimated property worth of business buildings misplaced or broken.
The Marshall hearth’s harm by municipality:
Louisville
- Properties destroyed: 550
- Properties broken: 43
- Misplaced residential worth: $229,199,184
- Business properties destroyed: 4
- Business properties broken: 14
Superior
- Properties destroyed: 378
- Properties broken: 58
- Misplaced residential worth: $152,757,462
- Business properties destroyed: Three
- Business properties broken: 14
Unincorporated Boulder County
- Properties destroyed: 156
- Properties broken: 48
- Misplaced residential worth: $131,255,944
- Business properties destroyed: None reported
- Business properties broken: Two
The county additionally offered a listing of addresses of destroyed property at property.bouldercounty.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/marshall-fire-damage-assessment-list.pdf.
And a map of the fireplace’s destruction may be discovered at bouldercounty.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=9f3314c39ad64fac925101aae0bdd62c.