Colorado’s most destructive wildfires (homes destroyed)

Colorado’s most destructive wildfires (homes destroyed)

25 June 2012

USA –-The Denver Post library has compiled the following list of Colorado’s top 16 most destructive wildfires in terms of the number of homes destroyed.

1. High Park, Larimer County 2012 — 248 homes.

2. Fourmile Canyon, 2010 — 169 homes.

3. Hayman, 2002 — 133 homes, 466 outbuildings.

4. Iron Mountain near Canon City, 2002 — 100 homes, 100 outbuildings.

5. Missionary Ridge, near Durango, 2002 — 56 homes, 27 outbuildings.

6. Hi-Meadow fire near Bailey, 2000 — 58 structures.

7. Black Tiger Gulch, 1989 — 44-46 homes.

8. Coal Seam, near Glenwood Springs, 2002 — 29 houses, 14 outbuildings.

9. Lower North Fork, near Conifer, 2012 — 27 homes.

10. Woodland Heights, Estes Park, 2012 – 22 homes, 2 structures.

11. Bobcat fire, Larimer County, 2000 — 22 structures.

12. Schoonover, Douglas County, 2002 — 13 structures.

13. Crystal, Larimer County, 2010 — 13 homes.

14. Buffalo Creek, Jefferson County, 1996 — 12 structures.

15. Million, near South Fork, 2002 — 11 homes, 2 outbuildings.

16. Olde Stage in Boulder County, 1990 — 10 homes.

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