2021 Marshall Fire Housing, Parcel, and Neighborhood Characteristic Data, in 2021 Marshall Fire Housing Data

This data is a summary of building, house, parcel, and neighborhood characteristics collected after the 2021 Marshall Fire. The characteristics included within this data set include: survival state of the house (destroyed, survived); distance to nearest home, distance to nearest destroyed structure, elevation, lot size, house size, construction year, latitute and longitude of the house, if the house was neighboring a drainage ditch or open space, presence of a fence on the property, presence of a wooden fence, a wooden fence touching the home, fire hydrant within view of the house, porch located on the home, deck located on the home, visible vents on the home, vegetation within 5 ft of the house, fire resistant cladding on the house, fire resistant roofing material on the house, construction type of the house (wood, masonry, mixed), if the house was located on a cul-de-sac or within an isolated community with one way in or out, neighborhood housing density, neighborhood WUI classification.

This data was collected remotely through tax records, Zillow (housing characteristics), and Google Earth. Data was collected manually via Zillow and was not obtained directly from Zillow. Distances between homes and to the nearest destroyed home were validated through field measurements for 200 homes. The data was collected for all destroyed homes across all impacted jurisdictions: Louisville, Superior, and Unincorporated Boulder County. It also included the standing homes that neighbor them.

The data can be used along with the damage patterns and mechanistic behavior of the homes and their various structural components to explore how the characteristics of these various scales impact survivability, but also to explore how this type of analysis should be conducted to explore differences in community construction, local building practices, and potential differences in codes between jurisdictions.

The data is organized within four spreadsheets - one for each jurisdiction - and the fourth contains all of the data across all of the jurisdictions. The "Read Me" file describes each of the variables and how they are represented within the spreadsheet, as well as how they were measured or obtained.