Wildfire in the West

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

As winter comes to a close, we are already seeing red flag warnings and prescribed burns across our region. Some experts say that the wildfire season has been expanding due to climate change, and human expansion, so the Carbondale Fire Department is hosting a community wildfire preparedness meeting.

It's been two years since the Marshall Fire burned more than a thousand homes in Boulder County. On December 30, 2021, winds of more than 100-miles-per-hour propelled the flames towards a heavily populated suburban area south of Boulder. Two years on, many homeowners continue to grapple with insurance companies.

Advocates are hopeful that a legislative fix will come in time to avoid those cuts, but for now thousands of federal firefighters are out on the line with the Sept. 30 deadline fast approaching.

When wildfires burn, it seems like the flames go everywhere and it can be difficult to predict their path. Engineers from Colorado State University developed a model to help with those predictions.

KDNK's News Director Morgan Neely has Wednesday's updates, including a preview of tonight's Roaring Fork Schools Board of Education meeting. And, Rifle Police recapture an escaped convict who's decked out in white power and Nazi tattoos.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Friday's news, including Glenwood Springs finally hiring a new city manager — more than six months after former manager Deb Figueroa departed for the private sector. And, reporter Hattison Rensberry finds something spooky afoot at the Carbondale Library. Also, we take a hard look at gun violence in Colorado after a record year for mass shootings.

KDNK's Morgan Neely has Monday's news, including a recap of 2022’s fire season, and a look at a surprising threat to bighorn sheep populations in the west.

KDNK's Hattison Rensberry has the news, including wolf reintroduction planned for the Roaring Fork Valley, meth in the air in the Boulder Library, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife listing the Whitebark Pine as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Plus, a look at Paonia's water moratorium four years in. And ... will it be a white Christmas in the Mountain West?