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<br />f/3c;66Se-J <br /> <br />.1;:-''-\- <br />C l:-_' I -' F~,~--l S <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Colorado Floodplain Facts <br /> <br />Historic Flood Data <br /> <br />Current Hazard Exposure <br /> <br />. Floodprone areas have been identified in 267 cities and towns and in all of the 63 counties in <br />Colorado <br /> <br />. Over 250,000 people are living in Colorado's floodplains <br /> <br />. There are estimated to be 65,000 homes and 15,000 commercial, industrial and business <br />structure in identified floodplains <br /> <br />. The value of this property, structures and contents is estimated to be over 11 billion dollars <br />(1996) <br /> <br />Current Losses <br /> <br />. Average annual flood losses in Colorado are $17,600,000 in property damages based on the <br />trend from 1896 to 1984 <br /> <br />. Cumulative flood losses for the most damaging floods in Colorado since the turn of the century <br />to 1993 were 331 people killed and property damages of $33 billion (1995 worth) <br /> <br />Presidential Disaster Declarations <br /> <br />The President has declared a major disaster during seven of the years from 1965 to 1995 as follows: <br /> <br />1965 33 Front Range counties <br /> <br />196915 Front Range counties <br /> <br />1970 Southwestern Colorado <br /> <br />1973 13 Front Range counties and 13 Southwest counties <br /> <br />1976 2 Front Range counties (Big Thompson Canyon) <br /> <br />1982 Larimer County (Lawn Lake Dam Failure) <br /> <br />1984 15 Western Slope counties <br /> <br />1997 Larimer, Morgan, Baca, Crowley, Kiowa, Otero, Weld, Clear Creek, Phillips, and <br />Logan counties <br />