Experts say the winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s front range was rare.
That border area — where structures built by people meet undeveloped wildland prone to fire — has always been the foothills, she said. Fire-fighters in Boulder consider the interface west of Broadway — a busy road that passes through the center of town. But Thursday's fire sparked east of that line, next to thousands of houses that have sprouted up on the east side of the Rockies since the 1990s, Balch said.
“There's no natural source of ignition at this time of year. There's no lightning,” she said. “It's either going to be infrastructure-related or it's going to be human caused."Over the last two decades, 97% of wildfires were started by people, according to a recent study by the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Unless people stop climate change by cutting back on fossil fuels, wildfires will threaten communities, Overpeck said.
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