The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms
The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms
The wildland-urban interface where structures built by people meet undeveloped wildland prone to fire has always been the foothills along the Front Range. But Thursday's fire sparked next to thousands of houses that have sprouted up on the east side of the Rockies since the 1990s, said Jennifer Balch, a fire scientist with the University of Colorado Boulder.