Weld County, Colorado
Weld County covers 3,985 square miles of land. Below is what the Isopleth API returned at the Census Bureau's interior point for the county (40.55596, -104.38367) on 2026-10-29. The ground sits at 1,452 m (4,765 ft) on a 0.1° slope, the mapped soil is well drained, it is outside a mapped FEMA floodplain, the nearest 69 kV+ substation is 24.0 km (14.9 mi) away and a major road is 844 m away. Values describe that one point, not the whole county; look up your own address or coordinates for your site.
Sample point values
| field | value | source |
|---|---|---|
| FEMA flood zone | D | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 08123C_FBFM1 |
| Inside a mapped floodplain | No | FEMA_NFHL Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage 08123C_FBFM1 |
| Wildfire, annual frequency | 0.0021 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Tornado, annual frequency | 2.6 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Hail, annual frequency | 6.6 events a year | FEMA_NRI Federal Emergency Management Agencyvintage December 2025 |
| Current drought category | D2 | USDM_CURRENT The U.S. Drought Monitor is jointly produced by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Map courtesy of NDMC.vintage US Drought Monitor map valid 20261020 |
| On a mapped wetland | No | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Nearest mapped wetland | 56 m | USFWS_NWI U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service |
| Elevation | 1,452 m (4,765 ft) | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Surveyvintage 3DEP 1/3 arc-second seamless DEM |
| Slope | 0.1° | USGS_3DEP_COG U.S. Geological Survey |
| Soil drainage | Well drained | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO CO617 mukey 95137 |
| Soil hydrologic group | B | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO CO617 mukey 95137 |
| Farmland class | Statewide importance | USDA_SSURGO U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage SSURGO CO617 mukey 95137 |
| Land use | Other | USFS_LCMS USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS LCMS CONUS 2025 annual (30 m) |
| Crop or cover (CDL) | Grass/Pasture | USDA_CDL U.S. Department of Agriculturevintage USDA CDL 2025 (30 m) |
| Tree canopy | 0% | USFS_NLCD_TCC USDA Forest Servicevintage USFS/MRLC NLCD Tree Canopy Cover (latest annual, 30 m) |
| On protected land (PAD-US) | No | PAD_US USGS Protected Areas Database of the United States (PAD-US)vintage USGS PAD-US 4.1 (Protection Mechanism Category combined layer) |
| Surface manager | Private or unknown | BLM_SMA Bureau of Land Management |
| Annual precipitation (normal) | 340 mm (13 in) | NOAA_NCEI_NORMALS_GRIDDED National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA NCEI 1991-2020 gridded (nClimGrid) monthly normals v1.0, annual layers |
| Days above 32 °C a year | 45 days | NOAA_NCEI_NCLIMGRID_DAILY National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrationvintage NOAA nClimGrid-Daily v1.0 (scaled), 1991-2020 mean annual day counts |
| Solar resource (GHI) | 4.85 kWh/m²/day | NREL_SOLAR_RESOURCE_V1 NREL Solar Resource Data (NSRDB)vintage NREL PSM v3 multiyear annual average (1998-2016, ~4 km, Americas) |
| Mean wind speed at 100 m | 5.8 m/s | NREL_WIND_TOOLKIT NREL WIND Toolkit (Draxl et al., 2015)vintage NREL WIND Toolkit CONUS v1.0.0, 2007-2013 (5-min, 2 km) |
| Wind capacity factor | 27% | NREL_REV_LANDBASED_WIND_SC_2024 NREL reV supply curves, Open Energy Data Initiative (OEDI)vintage NREL reV land-based wind SC 2024 (Open access) |
| Nearest substation (69 kV+) | 24.0 km (14.9 mi) | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Nearest gas pipeline | 16.9 km (10.5 mi) | EIA_ATLAS U.S. Energy Information Administration |
| Electric utility | POUDRE VALLEY REA, INC | EIA_POWER U.S. Energy Information Administrationvintage HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories |
| In a public water service area | No | EPA_CWS_SERVICE_AREAS U.S. Environmental Protection Agencyvintage V3.0 (2026-03-17) |
| Depth to water, nearest monitored well | 6.7 m (22 ft) | USGS_NWIS_OGC U.S. Geological Surveyvintage USGS Water Data discrete groundwater-level field measurements (latest per well) |
| Nearest major road | 844 m | OVERTURE_TRANSPORTATION © Overture Maps Foundation, © OpenStreetMap contributorsvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest fire station | 9.9 km (6.2 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| Nearest school | 9.9 km (6.2 mi) | OVERTURE_PLACES © Overture Maps Foundationvintage 2026-10-21.0 |
| In an Opportunity Zone | No | HUD_OPPORTUNITY_ZONES U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development |
Fields with no data at this point are left out. See the field catalog for all 351 fields.
Parcels
Parcel records: 2,599,937 parcels in 50 counties. Weld County has 163,486 of them. Published by Colorado OIT GIS; contributing counties (44 of 64) (Public, attribution); Collected annually (dateReceived April 2026 for sampled counties), refreshed annual.
Share of parcels with each column filled: owner name 85%, site address 73%, total value 71%, land use 14%, sale date 53%, zoning 16%. Not published here: year built.
The parcel under the sample point is 123.3 acres, land use “Agricultural”; its public record includes owner name, site address, mailing address, total value, assessed value, legal description. parcel_enrich returns that record for any parcel you ask about, and parcel_search finds parcels by acreage, land use or value.
Look up your own site
curl https://api.isopleth.dev/v1/fetch -H "Authorization: Bearer $ISOPLETH_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"lat": 40.555961, "lng": -104.383666, "preset": "site_selection"}'
Or ask your assistant through the MCP server: “Using Isopleth, check flood zone, wetlands, soils and distance to power for [your address in Weld County, Colorado].”
Buying land here? Check the Land’s Weld County page shows what its $29 report checks, built on these same Isopleth fields.
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