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Prepare your home for wildfire

Prepare Your Home for Wildfire

Our homes are the places most important to us. They connect us to our loved ones, neighborhoods, communities and entire personal histories. Yet a place that holds a lifetime of memories can be gone in seconds. Wildfire is a part of nature in Colorado, so take action to prepare your home and property for wildfire and start living wildfire ready.

Just under half of all Coloradans live in the wildland-urban interface and are at risk from wildfires.

Know Your Wildfire Risk

Grasses, shrubs and trees provide fuel for wildfires. If your home is located in or near the natural vegetation of Colorado’s grasslands, shrublands, foothills or mountains, you live in the wildland-urban interface and are at risk from a wildfire.

Start Living Wildfire Ready

You can do this! Preparing your home for wildfire can feel overwhelming, but it doesn’t have to be. Start with these simple, practical, low-cost actions.

By taking these actions, you will reduce the chances your home ignites during a wildfire and start to create a defensible space around your home.

Defensible space around the home

Be ready before a wildfire

Living wildfire ready also means being prepared during a wildfire. Take these actions to be sure you are ready when the inevitable occurs.

The Live Wildfire Ready campaign provides wildfire mitigation information to Colorado citizens.

Take it to the next level

The more you do to prepare and plan ahead, the more likely you, your family and your home will survive a wildfire.

Learn more actions you can take to reduce your wildfire risk from the Colorado State Forest Service, or consult a local fire department, office of emergency management or organization trained in wildfire mitigation practices where you live.

A local wildfire mitigation professional can provide a risk assessment specific to your home and property, help you connect with neighbors to create a fire-adapted community and provide access to local resources and funding opportunities.

Find Local Resources for Wildfire Mitigation

Resources are continually being updated. If your county is not listed, consult your local fire department, office of emergency management or organization trained in wildfire mitigation practices where you live.

County Organization
Archuleta Archuleta County Sheriff-Office of Emergency Management
Archuleta Los Pinos Fire Protection District
Archuleta Wildfire Adapted Partnership
Boulder Boulder Fire-Rescue
Boulder Timberline Fire Protection District
Boulder Wildfire Partners
Chaffee Envision Chaffee County
Clear Creek Clear Creek Watershed & Forest Health Partnership
Costilla Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Custer Custer County Mitigation Team
Custer Rye Fire Protection District
Custer Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Custer Wet Mountain Fire Protection District
Delta Hotchkiss Fire District
Delta West Region Wildfire Council
Dolores Wildfire Adapted Partnership
Douglas Conifer Wildland Division
Douglas Douglas County Wildfire Mitigation
Douglas West Metro Fire Rescue
Eagle Eagle County Public Information Officers
Eagle Eagle County Wildfire Collaborative
Eagle Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative
Fremont Fremont County Emergency Management
Garfield Colorado River Fire Rescue
Garfield Middle Colorado Watershed Council
Garfield Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative
Gilpin Clear Creek Watershed & Forest Health Partnership
Gilpin Timberline Fire Protection District
Grand Grand County Wildfire Council
Gunnison West Region Wildfire Council
Hinsdale Hinsdale County Sheriff’s Office
Hinsdale West Region Wildfire Council
Huerfano Huerfano County Emergency Management
Huerfano Rye Fire Protection District
Huerfano Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Jefferson Arvada Fire Protection District
Jefferson Clear Creek Watershed & Forest Health Partnership
Jefferson Conifer Wildland Division
Jefferson Rotary Wildfire Ready
Jefferson Timberline Fire Protection District
Jefferson West Metro Fire Rescue
La Plata La Plata County Wildfire Resource Center
La Plata Los Pinos Fire Protection District
La Plata Wildfire Adapted Partnership
Larimer Estes Valley Fire Protection District
Larimer Estes Valley Watershed Coalition
Larimer Poudre Fire Authority
Las Animas Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Mesa Middle Colorado Watershed Council
Mesa Two Rivers Wildfire Coalition
Montezuma Cortez Fire Protection District
Montezuma Wildfire Adapted Partnership
Montrose West Region Wildfire Council
Ouray Ouray County Emergency Management
Ouray West Region Wildfire Council
Park Conifer Wildland Division
Park Fire Adapted Bailey
Pitkin Roaring Fork Valley Wildfire Collaborative
Pueblo Beulah Fire Protection and Ambulance District
Pueblo Rye Fire Protection District
Pueblo West Park Fire Department
Pueblo Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection
Rio Blanco White River and Douglas Creek Conservation Districts
Rio Grande South Fork Fire Rescue
Routt Routt County Wildfire Mitigation Council
Saguache Saguache County Firewise Program
San Juan Wildfire Adapted Partnership
San Miguel West Region Wildfire Council
Southern Ute Reservation Archuleta County Sheriff-Office of Emergency Management
Summit Summit County Wildfire Council
Teller Spanish Peaks Alliance for Wildfire Protection

It is ultimately your responsibility to protect your home and property from wildfire. But wouldn't you do anything to protect your everything?

It is ultimately your responsibility to protect your home and property from wildfire. But wouldn't you do anything to protect your everything?

Live Wildfire Ready is a program of the State of Colorado.
Colorado State Forest Service
Colorado Division of Fire Prevention & Control
U.S. Forest Service
Colorado State Fire Chiefs
U.S. Bureau of Land Management, a Live Wildfire Ready partner
Eagle County, Colorado, a Live Wildfire Ready partner
Fire Adapted Colorado, a Live Wildfire Ready partner
West Metro Fire Rescure, a Live Wildfire Ready partner

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