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Water Damage in Broomfield: What We Actually See Here

Broomfield is two housing markets under one city-and-county government, and our water damage calls split along the same line. The older Broomfield grew from about 4,500 residents in 1960 to more than 20,000 by 1980: ranches and split-levels around the old downtown, now with fifty-year-old supply lines and cast iron or clay-tile waste lines. Then there is Broadlands, Anthem Highlands and Anthem West, mostly built from the late 1990s through the 2000s as the city jumped from 38,000 residents in 2000 to 74,112 in 2020 — deep finished basements, upstairs laundry rooms, different failure modes entirely.

What both halves share is the sky. On September 15, 2013, the last day of the great Front Range flood, the National Weather Service noted that flash flooding was most significant in the northern portions of the Denver metro area from Northglenn to around Broomfield. That was not canyon runoff; it was a stalled cloudburst on flat suburban ground, where water had nowhere to go but window wells, walkout doors and driveway-level garages.

Broomfield also sits squarely in hail alley. The June 2018 storm that hammered the north metro was ranked the state’s eighth costliest hailstorm at the time, with two-inch stones reported within a few miles of Broomfield. Hail is not usually thought of as a water loss, but a bruised roof becomes one three weeks later, quietly, above a bedroom ceiling.

Cloudburst flooding on flat suburban ground

Broomfield drains through Big Dry Creek and a network of engineered detention ponds and channels, and that works until a slow storm drops inches in under an hour. Then the water finds the lowest opening in the house, which in Broadlands and Anthem is usually a garden-level window in a finished basement. Clearing your window wells and the curb inlet out front before the next storm is ten of the best-spent minutes available to a homeowner here.

Fifty-year-old plumbing in the original neighborhoods

In the pre-1980 parts of town, most of what we see fails at a transition point: a galvanized stub feeding newer copper, a shutoff that will not fully close, a laundry hose bib on the cold wall of an unheated garage. Add expansive clay soils that shift with every wet-dry cycle and you also get slow foundation-wall seepage that homeowners mistake for a burst pipe. Part of our job is telling you which one you actually have before anything gets torn out.

How Fast We Can Reach Broomfield

We are based at 3787 Ronald Reagan Blvd, Unit 1 in Johnstown, roughly 30 miles north of Broomfield and a straight shot down I-25 to the Northwest Parkway or US 36. Barring real weather, that is typically under an hour door to door, and our phones are answered around the clock, every day of the year.

Frequently Asked Questions About Water Damage in Broomfield

Why did my Broadlands basement flood when it never has before?

Most Broadlands and Anthem homes have garden-level windows in finished basements, so water enters above grade rather than through the foundation. One high-intensity storm plus a clogged window well drain, settled grading or a blocked curb inlet is usually enough. Nothing about the house has to fail for water to get in, which is why it can happen after fifteen dry years.

Is Broomfield’s 2013 flooding relevant to my house today?

Yes, because the mechanism was local rainfall, not a river. The National Weather Service identified the northern metro from Northglenn to Broomfield as the focus of flash flooding on September 15, 2013. Ground that took water then can take it again, so we look at grading, window wells and sump discharge routing instead of calling it a once-in-a-lifetime event.

Can hail damage cause water damage months later in Broomfield?

Regularly. The 2018 north metro storm produced two-inch hail near Broomfield, and stones that size fracture shingle mats and crack pipe boots without punching an obvious hole. The leak appears on the next wind-driven rain or snowmelt as a stain along a ceiling seam. If your roof took hail and you now have a stain, treat it as an active leak.

My older Broomfield home has a crawlspace — how bad is standing water down there?

Worse than it looks. In the pre-1980 ranches around old downtown Broomfield, crawlspaces are shallow, barely ventilated and usually have exposed soil. Water sits, humidity rises into the floor system, and joists start growing mold before you smell anything upstairs. We dry crawlspaces with containment and directed airflow, not just a pump and hope.

Should I call my insurance company before calling you?

Call us first. When we document moisture readings, photos and the source of loss before anything is moved, your claim goes in supported by evidence instead of a description. Revive is family operated and locally owned by Levi, born and raised in Northern Colorado, and we work with every carrier. The inspection costs you nothing.

If you have water moving through your Broomfield home right now, shut off the supply if you can reach it safely and call us at (720) 340-3499. We have been doing this since 2016, we answer 24/7, and we would rather look at something small. You can see everywhere we work on our service areas page, including nearby Lafayette, Louisville and Northglenn, and read more about our full water damage restoration process.