Firestone, Colorado

Firestone population, 2020 to 2024

Firestone added 2,732 residents from July 2020 to July 2024, a change of +16.4%. In the latest year it moved by +798. Among 79 Colorado places of 5,000 or more, that growth ranks 13th; the median place changed by +3.0%. The median place of 5,000+ in Colorado has 14,061 people, so Firestone is 1.4 times that size.

Firestone covers 13.91 square miles of land and 0.66 of water, for 1,394 people per square mile of land. The median Colorado place of 5,000+ has 1,848, so Firestone is less dense than the typical town.

What county Firestone is in

All of Firestone's residents live in Weld County, which had 369,745 residents in 2024. Firestone holds 5.2% of the county's population. The shaded shape is on the map above; dots mark the eight nearest places.

ZIP codes in Firestone

2 ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) overlap Firestone by at least 10% of the ZCTA's or the town's land: 80504, 80520. ZCTAs are Census approximations of USPS ZIP code delivery areas. The list comes from the 2020 ZCTA to place relationship file, so a town that annexed land after 2020 may reach into ZIP codes not listed here.

Where Firestone is

The Census internal point of Firestone is at 40.155700, -104.948600. Denver, the capital, is 28.9 miles S in a straight line. The nearest larger place is Longmont, CO (99,818 people), 8.1 miles away. The nearest city of 100,000 or more is Thornton, CO, 16.3 miles away.

Daylight in Firestone

At 40.16° N, Firestone gets about 15 h 02 min of daylight around the June solstice and 9 h 19 min around the December solstice, a swing of 5 h 43 min. Figures are sunrise to sunset from the SunCalc model for June 21 and December 21, 2026.

Places near Firestone

The eight nearest incorporated places of 1,000+ in Colorado, measured between internal points. The closest is Frederick, 3.7 miles away, with 17,937 people.