17037 County Road 5
Meeker, CO 81641
UPHOFF, COE D. LIVING TRUST · Rio Blanco County, CO
Needs review means a record exists that requires verification. No record means nothing is on file — which is not an all-clear.
A split estate — the minerals beneath are federally owned.
- High wildfire risk
Action plan for this parcel
- 1.
Verify mineral severance vs surface-only ownership
Criticalminerals0 producing wells on the parcel. In CO, surface and mineral rights are commonly severed — pull deed history to confirm what's actually owned. If minerals are reserved to a prior owner, royalties flow to them; if conveyed with surface, royalties + lease bonuses go to the current owner.
- 2.
2 rebate programs match this address
RecommendedrebateAcross state, county, and local sponsors — up to $1,000 stackable. Includes Colorado Wildfire Mitigation Income Tax Credit; Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) Grant.
Acrescope presents data and surfaces actions — it does not provide financial, legal, tax, or insurance advice. Confirm with a qualified professional before incurring costs.
The deal
What this parcel is worth, what encumbers it, and what its paper trail says — value, distress, listings, sales, and tax.
No distress filings on record for this parcel. We monitor county clerk recordings (NEDs, lis pendens, liens, judgements) and join them via fuzzy name match.
No active for-sale listings on record for this parcel. We track public-record foreclosure-sale lists (county Public Trustee) and attach them here when a sale is scheduled.
17037 COUNTY ROAD 5, RIFLE, CO 81650
The land
What the ground itself is — cover, soils, buildability, water, minerals, and the public land around it.
No significant build constraints in the data available for this parcel.
Partial coverage — based on the soil/geohazard layers present for this parcel; the read sharpens as those backfill.
- Mean annual precipitation
- 16.8 in
- Mean annual snowfall
- 58 inModerate snow load
- Mean annual temperature
- 47°F
- Frost-free season
- 208 days/yr(long growing season)
Source: Open-Meteo Historical Weather archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 2014–2023 daily normals. Frost-free days count days whose overnight low stayed above 32°F. The snow-load band is a buyer-facing heuristic from annual snowfall, not an engineered ground-snow-load design value — confirm with the local building department before relying on it.
1 decreed water right on record (oldest priority 1882) — a transferable water asset that conveys with the land.
| Priority | Structure | Source | Decreed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1882-05-01 | PARK SPG NO 1(Spring)WDID 4302409 ↗ | PICEANCE CREEK | 0.25 C |
No oil & gas wells within ½ mile of this parcel. Sourced from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) public registry.
- USFS· NFWhite River National Forest1.5 mi2,289K ac
- BLM· ACECDudley Bluffs Area of Critical Environmental ConcernDudley Bluffs ACEC4.2 mi2K ac
Distance is measured to the nearest edge of each unit's bounding box (a fast approximation, not precise polygon containment). “Inside unit boundary” means the parcel centroid sits within the unit's bbox; verify against the unit's precise boundary before acting.
- Mineral rights designation
- No Minerals
- Federal estate acres overlapping
- 4,824
Source: BLM Colorado Federal Mineral Estate (Solid Colors). Split-estate ownership is common in the Western US — verify deed history and any mineral-rights conveyance/reservation before relying on this signal.
The risk
What could burn, flood, slide, or fail to insure — and how exposed this parcel actually is.
| Incident | Acres | Contained | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| 310 | 603 | 100% | 28.3 mi |
- Wildfire damage potential (CO-WRA)
High▾
Wildfire damage potential is High. Mitigation work materially reduces risk and qualifies for rebates + insurance discounts.
- CO-WRA bld_dmg_pot tier
- High
- Acrescope wildfire component (0-100)
- 80
Actions that move this rating- Defensible-space rebate stack — Run the Acrescope rebate-stack tool for this address. CO offers up to $30K+ stackable across state, county, town, and nonprofit programs.
- Wildfire Partners / IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home certification — Independent home-hardening certification. Accepted by Allstate, State Farm, USAA, AmFam — typically reduces premium 10-15% on the standard wildfire surcharge.
- Schedule a free wildfire assessment — Most CO mountain fire districts and county Wildfire Councils offer free on-site risk assessments. Apply outputs to the rebate-stack actions above.
Source: Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA) · bld_dmg_pot
- FEMA flood zone
Zone X (minimal)▾
Zone X — minimal flood hazard mapped. Optional flood insurance still recommended for finished basements.
- FEMA NFHL zone
- X
- NFHL subtype
- AREA OF MINIMAL FLOOD HAZARD
- Special Flood Hazard Area
- No
- Acrescope flood component (0-100)
- 0
Actions that move this rating- Basement / finished-lower-level coverage — Even Zone X parcels can flood from snowmelt, hill runoff, or burst pipes. Confirm your homeowner policy covers below-grade water; add NFIP PRP if it does not.
- In Special Flood Hazard Area?
- No
- Nearest SNOTEL station
- Burro Mountain31.3 mi · 9,290 ftSnowpack reference for this area — link out for current SWE + 30-year normal.
- Fires within 5 mi
- 9
- Most recent
- MIDDLE — 2021
- Total acres burned within 5 mi
- 4,414
Show all 9 fires ▾
- MIDDLE202196 ac· 3.0 mi
- STEWART2020212 ac· 1.9 mi
- Sprague201891 ac· 4.9 mi
- Steward Gulch201862 ac· 1.7 mi
- West Stewart2016112 ac· 4.3 mi
- Big20139 ac· 3.8 mi
- Collins2013380 ac· 1.9 mi
- Scandard20003,432 ac· 4.6 mi
- Radar200021 ac· 4.8 mi
The owner
Who holds it, through what entity, and what else that owner holds.
Individual owner of record. No Colorado Secretary of State business entity matched to this parcel's owner name.
- Median household income
- $72,250
- Median home value
- $340,900
- Median age
- 45.5
- Owner-occupied
- 80%(240 of 300 units)
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- 14.6%
- Vacancy rate
- 4.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2022 5-year estimates, block group 081039511002. Block groups average ~1,500 people; these stats describe the surrounding community, not this parcel specifically.
- Verdict & action plan — full write-up with every claim cited to its record (free: summary above)
- Recommended diligence — the complete prioritized checklist for this parcel (free: top action above)
- Property & valuation — comp set, ag use-value adjustment, valuation walk-through (free: assessor value above)
- Land & stewardship — land cover, soils, buildability, regenerative potential
- Water & subsurface — each decreed right with priority date, WDID, and diversion history (free: counts above)
- Climate & hazards — burn history, insurability workup, mitigation rebate stack (free: tiers above)
- Distress & ownership — filing-by-filing record and the owner’s full entity network (free: flags above)
- Sources & methodology — every source record linked, dated, and retrievable
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- Parcel ID
- 360952a7-b8da-4ab9-92fd-13603ca0e2ea
- APN
- 166332400002
- Schedule
- R0800466
- Assessor record
- 2026-08-22
- Sale history
- 2026-06-02
- Water rights
- 2026-08-20
- Well permits
- 2026-06-09
- Oil & gas wells
- 2026-08-20
- Federal mineral estate
- 2026-08-22
- Flood zones
- 2026-06-03
- Fire perimeters
- 2026-08-22
- Distress filings
- 2026-08-22
- Entity registrations
- 2026-08-22
- Conservation easements
- 2026-06-11
The date our copy of that office’s records last changed — domains update on different cadences.