re: #265 Shiplord Kirel

Also, I think the city will likely be reduced from being the second largest city to the 3-5th Largest in Colorado in the next several decades.

Why?

Well……

The state Forest Service and Colorado State University completed a study in 2013 that found that about 20% of Colorado’s population and 25% of Colorado homes are within in a “red zone”, or a place with high likelihood of fires. El Paso County is one of the top three counties for fire danger with 45% of its residents within a red zone.[g] Colorado has seen a 300 percent increase in wildfires between 2003 and 2013.

The footnote is more blunt and specific.

Approximately 45 percent of the population of El Paso County, or about 278,000 people, live in a fire danger zone. About 20,000 people and about 7,000 homes are located in the Black Forest Fire evacuation zone. Census data shows that half of those homes were built in the last decade. The Colorado Springs Briargate subdivision, just south of Black Forest, is certain to be exposed to fire in the future. Houses built in the forests are particularly in danger of fires.

Black Forest has already mostly burned down in 2013. The range of the fire scorched most of the forest.

Briargate, and for that matter, most of the city has an artificial forest of sorts, with large numbers of trees in most backyard.

Colorado Springs will likely suffer the fate of Sodom and Gomarrah. Considering my sister lost 4 friends to suicide there, and she now also has mental issues, my family has said they will not be sad to see it happen.