Clear Creek County, CO Shrink-Swell Risk

What Clear Creek County, CO's soil means for a foundation

Low

USDA's SSURGO data puts Clear Creek County, CO's soil at "Low" shrink-swell potential, an area-weighted linear extensibility of 0.75% across 98.6% of the county's surveyed land. That's as favorable a county-level reading as this dataset produces - standard foundation practice, pending one lot's own geotechnical report.

This is a county figure, not a lot figure

USDA's survey covers the whole of Clear Creek County, CO at once, not any single address. A site-specific soil report, usually $1,000-$5,000, is what an engineer would actually pull before designing a foundation on a lot in Clear Creek County.

Report cost vs. repair cost

With Clear Creek County, CO rating "Low", a geotechnical report is still worthwhile before a build, just less urgent than in a high-risk county. A geotechnical report runs $1,000-$5,000, typically around $2,700. Foundation repair, if a specific lot turns out to differ from the county average, runs $5,000-$15,000.

Where this sits nationally

Nationally, Clear Creek County, CO is the 3,008-most-constrained of 3,085 rated counties for shrink-swell soil. Within Colorado alone it ranks 62 of 63. Clear Creek County, CO is 395 square miles with a population of 9,076.

Before you act on this

Orleans Parish, LA carries this site's most-constrained reading. Douglas County, WI and Delaware County, PA are worth a look for comparison.

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More of Colorado

Every county in Colorado is on this site, including Lake County, CO and Jefferson County, CO. The full underlying dataset is downloadable directly, one row per county.