By Mike Barrett
On December 30, 2021, an entire subdivision in Boulder County, Colorado was incinerated...
What we now know as the Marshall Fire ‒ the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history ‒ was the culprit.
At a news conference during the catastrophe, Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle estimated that the fire was engulfing "football field lengths of land in seconds"... The Sagamore subdivision of 171 homes in the town of Superior (about 25 miles northwest of Denver) was completely destroyed.
In all, 1,100-plus homes across Boulder County were turned to ash, including 9% of Superior's housing stock.
Climate Adaptation Center CEO Robert Bunting, a longtime resident of the area, says there were two catalysts. First, the extended drought gripping the western U.S. "has [had] no parallel in the