Dozens Of Homes Burned In Boulder County, Colorado Wildfire

A total of 26 homes were lost or damaged due to the CalWood Fire, officials said Sunday evening, though that number is expected to increase when damage assessment teams return to some of the affected areas.

According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, the majority of the damaged structures were on the east side of the burn area.

The fire started in the middle of the day Saturday and has since burned 8,788 acres, making it the largest fire Boulder County has ever seen. It is 5% contained.

“When you see that smoke and those flames coming over the edge, it’s super scary, said Steve Stewart, who lives on Foothills Ranch Drive.

With a burn scar infringing on subdivisions near Highway 36 and Nelson Road, and hotspots still smoldering, homeowners did their own makeshift damage assessments from afar Sunday. Even from a distance, it was easy to see the CalWood Fire’s path was both destructive and indiscriminate, destroying some homes and leaving others nearby untouched.