Boulder County rents skyrocket after Marshall Fire

BOULDER COUNTY, Colo. — Take the Denver metro area’s strained housing market, then add the most destructive wildfire in Colorado history and the loss of more than a thousand homes. 

Marshall Fire victims, forced to rent, are seeing some of the highest rent hikes in Colorado. 

“We had a crisis here in Louisville, we lost a thousand homes, so in December of 2021, we weren’t seeing a housing crisis or rent rates being crazy,” said Jennifer Fox of Fox Property Management. 

The largest…