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Data as of 2026-08-30
Parcel record

450 Owl Creek Ranch Rd

Snowmass Village, CO

RANCHO CALIENTE LLC · Pitkin County, CO

Registered entity: Rancho Caliente, LLC (Good Standing)

Entity (CO)ModerateZone X (minimal)
Est. market value
$16,407,792
$/sqft comp · high county comp coverage
Assessor: $41,092,400
Last sale: $9,150,000 on 2004-11-08
Water rights
3
decreed right record(s) associated
Lot size
79.11 ac
3,446,186 sf
Structure
Built 1994
6 bd / 8.5 ba · 11,994 sf
Value, lot & structure: Pitkin County Assessor · Water rights: CO Division of Water Resources (CDSS) · Retrieved 2026-08-30

Needs review means a record exists that requires verification. No record means nothing is on file — which is not an all-clear.

Acrescope Verdict
Diligence signal · exp.
5/100
low signal

A split estate — the minerals beneath are federally owned.

Federal Mineral Estate (Split Estate)
Federal-owned minerals below (split estate)
Regenerative-Potential Land
Ranch Candidate
Next3 rebate programs match this addressaction plan · 2 items
Acrescope Indicators
Filings: dormant
Proprietary multi-domain composite — distress, fire, geohazards, soils, ownership & water records joined to one parcel.
Signal 5/100 (low) — Among the lowest-signal in county
Motivated Seller Score
5/100
low
Low-motivation — ranks high only because most county parcels carry few signals
Acrescope Risk Model v0.2 · experimentalNot yet calibrated — the cited records outrank the number. How it’s computed · geohazard/soil coverage for this parcel: 50%
Map view
Esri World Imagery · 39.22419, -106.88342· 1,108 water rights within 5 mi (nearest 80 mapped)· 3 O&G wells within 5 mi· 1 NIFC fire perimeter within 50 mi
Parcel Neighbor boundaryNearby parcel (by risk) Water right O&G well Fire perimeter · 1 within 50 mi

Action plan for this parcel

Prioritized recommendations derived from this parcel's patterns, applicable rebates, and county-level context.
  1. 1.

    3 rebate programs match this address

    Recommendedrebate

    Across state, county, and local sponsors — up to $1,000 stackable. Includes Aspen Fire Protection District Chipper Day; Colorado Wildfire Mitigation Income Tax Credit; Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation (FRWRM) Grant.

  2. 2.

    Verify owner mailing address is current

    Optionalcompliance

    Owner of record is out-of-state. If you are the owner, ensure your county assessor has a current mailing address — undelivered tax bills are the most common precursor to tax-lien foreclosure.

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.

Estimated market valuehigh confidence
$/sqft comp — clean recent arms-length sales, by county.
Estimate
$16,407,792
range $11,154,420$22,764,612
County median
$1,368/sqft
11,994 sqft · 704 comps
This parcel's recorded sale
$9,150,000
2004-11-08
  • · Wide range — county $/sqft mixes condos, single-family and luxury; the low–high band matters more than the point.
  • · County-level comp model — no adjustment for condition, view, or remodel. An estimate, not an appraisal.
Ranch land value estimatehigh confidence
Comp model — clean single-parcel arms-length ag sales, by county $/acre.
Estimated land value
$1,341,923
range $584,649$3,797,685
County median
$16,962/ac
79.1 ac · 41 comps
This parcel's recorded sale
$9,150,000
single-parcel sale · 2004-11-08

Why this differs from the assessor value above: Colorado assesses agricultural-classified land on grazing productivity (ag-use value), typically ~30–40× below market. This estimate instead applies the county median $/acre from clean single-parcel arms-length ag sales (bulk multi-parcel deeds, government/exempt land, and nominal transfers excluded). An estimate, not an appraisal.

Distress signals

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.

For sale

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.

Sale history
1 recorded sale
  • 2004-11-08
    $9,150,000

Source: county assessor sale records.

Tax mailing

1201 S ORLANDO AVE STE 370, WINTER PARK, FL 32789

The land

What the ground itself is — cover, soils, buildability, water, minerals, and the public land around it.

Land cover
NLCD 2021 — Shrub/Scrub predominant. “Open” = grazable shrub, grass, pasture & crop.
Forest29%
Open / grazable67%
Developed0%
Water / wetland3%
Soils
USDA SSURGO — Kobar (Kobar silty clay loam, 1 to 6 percent slopes). Land-capability class rates farm/graze suitability (1 best → 8 unsuited).
Farmland class
Prime farmland if irrigated
Land-capability (irrigated)
4e
Land-capability (non-irrigated)
4e
Drainage
Well drained
Hydrologic group
C
Slope
4%
Avail. water capacity
0.19 cm/cm
Buildability
Construction feasibility synthesized across slope, soils, landslide & flood — the constraints a land buyer pays for, joined to one parcel.
Build constraint
Favorable
  • Group-C soil — slow infiltration

Partial coverage — based on the soil/geohazard layers present for this parcel; the read sharpens as those backfill.

Climate profile
Long-run climate normals at the parcel centroid, averaged over 20142023. Drives growing season & water for ranch/ag use, plus snow load for buildability.
Mean annual precipitation
25.6 in
Mean annual snowfall
123 inHeavy snow load
Mean annual temperature
39°F
Frost-free season
134 days/yr(moderate growing season)

Source: Open-Meteo Historical Weather archive (ERA5 reanalysis), 20142023 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.

Water security
Decreed surface-water rights & seniority synthesized into one prior-appropriation read — the water question a ranch or land buyer leads with.
Water security
Secured

3 decreed water rights on record (oldest priority 1974) — a transferable water asset that conveys with the land.

Water rights (3)
Oldest priority date: 1974-11-01
PriorityStructureSourceDecreed
1974-11-01POND NO 4(Reservoir)WDID 3803561OWL CREEK7.41 A
1974-11-01OWL CR RES POND NO 4B(Reservoir)WDID 3813500OWL CREEK2.76 A
1974-11-01OWL CR RES POND NO 4C(Reservoir)WDID 3813501OWL CREEK2.45 A
Water well
A permitted water well is recorded at or near this parcel (primarily monitoring/sampling). A permitted well is real, recorded water access from the CO Division of Water Resources — and on unbuilt rural land it is often the gating utility for buildability.
Permitted wells
1
Primary use
Monitoring/Sampling
Most recent permit
1983-08-19

Source: the Colorado Division of Water Resources well-permit registry (CDSS). These are WATER wells (domestic / irrigation / stock), not oil & gas wells. Wells are matched to the parcel by proximity to its centroid, not by surveyed boundary — a well listed here can sit on an adjacent parcel. Descriptive, not legal advice — confirm the permit location, decreed use, and yield with CO DWR before relying on them.

Oil & gas wells

No oil & gas wells within ½ mile of this parcel. Sourced from the Colorado Energy & Carbon Management Commission (ECMC) public registry.

Adjacent federal lands
Nearest USFS / NPS / BLM / FWS-managed units within ~5 mi of the parcel centroid. Source: USGS PAD-US v3.0.
  • USFS· NF
    White River National Forest
    parcel inside unit boundary
    0 mi
    2,289K 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.

Federal mineral estate
Split estate · find more
This parcel's centroid sits inside 3 BLM-mapped federal mineral-estate polygons — meaning the federal government owns some or all of the minerals beneath this surface property (a “split estate”).
Mineral rights designation
All Minerals
Federal estate acres overlapping
2,175

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.

Active wildfires within 50 miles (1)
Source: NIFC Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS) current perimeters. Updated multiple times daily.
IncidentAcresContainedDistance
Willow7,19680%22.4 mi
Climate & environmental risk
Wildfire damage potential (CO-WRA)
Moderate

Wildfire damage potential is Moderate. Stay current on defensible space; track changes as fuels shift year-to-year.

CO-WRA bld_dmg_pot tier
Moderate
Acrescope wildfire component (0-100)
55
Actions that move this rating
  • Defensible-space rebate stackRun the Acrescope rebate-stack tool for this address. CO offers up to $30K+ stackable across state, county, town, and nonprofit programs.

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 coverageEven 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.

Source: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer (NFHL)

In Special Flood Hazard Area?
No
Elevation
8,018 ft · 2,444 m
Nearest SNOTEL station
Chapman Tunnel13.8 mi · 10,090 ft
Snowpack reference for this area — link out for current SWE + 30-year normal.
CAIC avalanche paths nearby
Mapped highway avalanche paths within ~2 mi of the parcel centroid. Source: Colorado Avalanche Information Center + CDOT.
Paths within 2 mi
1
Closest path
Shale Bluffs1.30 mi
Show all 1 path
  • Shale BluffsMP 149.1
    1.30 mi

CAIC's published path inventory covers state-highway corridors. Backcountry avalanche terrain off highways is not included.

Emergency services proximity
Drive time via OpenRouteService. Falls back to straight-line distance until cached. Service locations from OpenStreetMap.
Nearest fire station
3.4 mi
Unnamed station
Aspen Fire Protection District
7907 Upper River Road, Woody Creek, CO, 81656
Nearest hospital
3.3 mi
Aspen Valley Hospital
401 Castle Creek Road, Aspen, CO, 81611
Drive time is computed on first view; refresh in a few seconds to see actual minutes.

The owner

Who holds it, through what entity, and what else that owner holds.

Corporate ownershipOut-of-state owner
Colorado SOS registered entity
Entity name
Rancho Caliente, LLC
Status
Good Standing
State of formation
CO
Formation date
2004-10-25
Entity type
DLLC
Registered agent
Neighborhood cluster · Quiet cluster
80 parcels within 1 mile of this property. Average Acrescope Risk Score: 11/100.
80
parcels nearby
0
with distress
0
high-risk (50+)
Neighborhood demographics
Block group 000500-1 · ACS 2022 5-year estimate. Population 1,718.
Median household income
$86,146
Median home value
$245,600
Median gross rent
$1,547/mo
Median age
36.5
Owner-occupied
59%(603 of 1,022 units)
Bachelor's degree or higher
52.6%
Vacancy rate
21.9%

Source: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2022 5-year estimates, block group 080970005001. Block groups average ~1,500 people; these stats describe the surrounding community, not this parcel specifically.

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  • Property & valuationcomp set, ag use-value adjustment, valuation walk-through (free: assessor value above)
  • Land & stewardshipland cover, soils, buildability, regenerative potential
  • Water & subsurfaceeach decreed right with priority date, WDID, and diversion history (free: counts above)
  • Climate & hazardsburn history, insurability workup, mitigation rebate stack (free: tiers above)
  • Distress & ownershipfiling-by-filing record and the owner’s full entity network (free: flags above)
  • Sources & methodologyevery source record linked, dated, and retrievable
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Pitkin County Assessor · record of parcel
Parcel ID
4f437c80-ccf9-49f9-b52f-89821d4f6bff
APN
264333401004
Schedule
R012302
Retrieved 2026-08-30
Records as of, by domain
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
2026-08-24
Distress filings
2026-08-24
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.