Wildfire Risk and Housing Prices: A Case Study from Colorado Springs

Land Economics, May 2007

By: University of Wisconsin at Madison

https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/27731
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Wildland-Urban Interface

This article examines the effectiveness of the Colorado Springs Fire Department’s wildfire risk rating project through a comparison between home prices and wildfire risk before and after information dissemination. It concludes that before the information was available, home price and wildfire risk were positively correlated, and afterwards they were not.


Colorado Springs, CO

2010 Population: 416,427

2010 Population Density: 2,140.57/square mile