2021 Marshall Fire Housing and Parcel Characteristics for Impacted Colorado Communities
by Fischer, Erica / DesignSafe Data Depot Repository Harvested Subcollection·Updated 1mo ago
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Description
200 homes had field measurements validating distances between structures. The dataset summarizes building, parcel, and neighborhood characteristics for homes destroyed and standing after the December 30, 2021 Marshall Fire in Louisville, Superior, and unincorporated Boulder County, Colorado. Erica Fischer compiled the data from tax records, Zillow, and Google Earth for analysis of survivability factors.
Use Cases
Modeling house survival probability based on features like construction type, roofing material, and distance to nearest destroyed structure.
Analyzing the influence of neighborhood characteristics such as housing density, WUI classification, and cul-de-sac location on fire spread.
Comparing building practices and potential code differences between the jurisdictions of Louisville, Superior, and Boulder County.
Studying the relationship between mitigation features (fire-resistant cladding, vegetation clearance) and structural survival.
Strengths
Includes data for all destroyed homes across three impacted jurisdictions, providing a complete post-event snapshot.
Contains over 20 specific characteristics per property, including survival state, distances, construction details, and neighborhood attributes.
Key distance metrics were validated through field measurements for a subset of 200 homes.
Limitations
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale modeling.
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred from the separate 'Read Me' file after download.
Data was collected manually via Zillow and not obtained directly from the platform, which may introduce inconsistencies.
Provenance
Source
DesignSafe Data Depot Repository Harvested Subcollection, authored by Erica Fischer.
Collection Method
Collected remotely through tax records, Zillow (housing characteristics), and Google Earth, with manual data entry from Zillow.
Time Range
Post-event data collected after the December 30, 2021 Marshall Fire.
Freshness
Last updated 2026-04-30 07:10:09; freshness should be verified.
Geography
Louisville, Superior, and unincorporated Boulder County, Colorado, USA.
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