Our colorado-based research team has strong ties to the affected communities and assembled in the weeks following the marshall fire to collect longitudinal mixed-methods data on disaster impacts,…

Our colorado-based research team has strong ties to the affected communities and assembled in the weeks following the marshall fire to collect longitudinal mixed-methods data on disaster impacts, policy preferences and participation, and recovery outcomes. These data include surveys and interviews with affected residents at multiple time points ( 6 MOS, 1 year, and 2 years post-fire), interviews with local decision-makers, and records of public meetings. We have also established strong working relationships with local governments, community organizations, and resident groups, and are collaborating with emergency, recovery, and resilience managers to CO-develop recommendations to foster equity and enhance climate resilience in the affected areas and beyond. The proposed research will continue to analyze our existing data and follow the marshall fire recovery process through years 3-5 post-fire. Over this period, we expect to see the majority of destroyed homes being rebuilt and reoccupied, as well as development and implementation of longer-term strategies aimed at building resilience to multiple climate-related hazards. By continuing and enhancing our longitudinal, mixed-methods analysis over this critical period, we will examine how disaster impacts, and recovery outcomes are distributed across social groups, as well as evaluating policy participation and how this is affecting recovery and resilience decisions.