Spring is underway, which means the Flood Threat Bulletin is back! We’ll be returning to our daily posts starting this Saturday, May 1st. Additionally, the Flood Threat Outlook will continue to be issued weekly on Monday and Thursday, which will track the flood and precipitation potential across Colorado over the next 15 days.
New to this season, after a historical 2020 wildfire season, is the Fire Burn Forecast (FBF). The FBF will be issued daily for select, high-risk burn areas across Colorado’s high terrain. This standalone forecast will officially separate out the burn areas from the existing FTB product. The FBF table will track antecedent rainfall over the last 24 hours and whether or not flooding was reported over a given burn area. Reminder that you can report floods by going to the Report a Flood tab at the top of this site. The FBF will also have a daily forecast component (issued by 11AM), which will indicate the likelihood for excessive runoff, flash flooding, muds flows and/or debris slides over the next 24 hours. To learn more about the high-risk burn areas we’ll be forecasting for, head on over to the About the FTB page and scroll down to our interactive map.
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