RBC | The number of people living in areas at risk to the effects of wildland fire increased by nearly 50 percent from 2012 to 2017, based on new Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment data released this week by the Colorado State Forest Service.
As of 2017, approximately 2.9 million people live in Colorado’s wildland-urban interface (WUI)—the area where human improvements are built close to, or within, natural terrain and flammable vegetation—compared to 2 million people…