ray Prying for rain and no wind or lightning.
My mom went through an evacuation in 2007. Same conditions as these. Hot, dry, and lots of wind
My cousin's house was first to be evacuated, so she got a hotel for her family. Two days into the fires, approximately 500,000 people from at least 346,000 homes were under mandatory orders to evacuate... about that time my aunt, uncle, and mom had to evacuate... by then there were no hotels...so they all smashed together in the hotel room my cousin got, until they were allowed to go home several days later. They are together weekly at my cousin’s for dinner and hanging out anyway - so everything was fine... they did not drive each other nuts
... but there was fear that no one would have a house. Just like these Colorado fires, they were all over the county.
My mom’s place had soot and ash everywhere. She should have had her carpets cleaned. We finally replaced them... when you walked barefoot, your feet were stained from the ash...it was gross.
She had wiped down everything, but two years later when we painted, several times my brush came up with ash on it!
The fire can be a few miles away and damage your stuff when it is this large - damage you don't even think of! When there is that much in the air...it affects everything I feel so badly for these families!