Jon has a B.S. The Cameron Peak, Grizzly Creek and Pine Gulch fires also took a toll on tourism, transportation, and air quality — all carrying costs that are hard to quantify.
Bill Mart has borne those costs since the Cameron Peak fire broke out on Aug. 13 northwest of Fort Collins, ending what had been a good tourism season for his small general store in the unincorporated community of Red Feather Lakes, about a mile and a half from the fire. “Long-range forecasts don’t show that kind of precipitation until the end of October,” he said. Low humidity both day and night has also made the fire more difficult to control, he said. But significant progress has been made, particularly on the west side.

Be Ember Aware! Watch wildfire mitigation educational videos to learn more about how and why homes are lost in wildfires. Five federal agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and National Parks Service, estimated in 2019 that nationally 100 million acres are at high risk for wildfire and they cannot complete all the work annually that needs to get done, according to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office. A detailed map of the fire risk on each individual property within the wildland-urban interface shows hundreds of homes at low fire risk, an accomplishment that's taken decades, Colorado Springs Fire Marshal Brett Lacey said.

Colorado wildfires blaze through $130 million while mitigation efforts lag, Colorado Springs residents can look up the fire risk on their property at, Start your holiday travel at Colorado’s small airport, Silverado Ranch—Miles of beautiful trails and scenic lots.

But, where mitigation was done, far more trees were left alive, Smith said. (Photo courtesy of Poudre Fire Authority), The large fire breaks put in between the forest and homes in Summit County saved the community from the Buffalo fire in 2018. In 2015, we awarded $20,000 in reimbursement to eight communities.
Fire mitigation is a process to reduce the risk of wildfire to your home. Fire mitigation such as thinning vegetation, clearing dead trees, and removing other fuels is key to slowing a fire down, stopping it earlier and saving homes.

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Mitigation can also ensure a healthier burn through the forest. As Colorado residents, fire mitigation is imperative as we face arid summers with periods of drought, which are ideal conditions for wildfires. Wildfire Mitigation and Forest Health The act makes the following modifications to the existing "Forest Restoration and Wildfire Risk Mitigation Act" (FRWRMA) and, specifically, the grant program funded by FRWRMA: Currently, grant applicants are required to self-finance 50% of the cost of a project funded by a grant.

No one factor, such as air support, drives the cost of the fires, said Larry Helmerick, spokesman with the Rocky Mountain Area Coordination center.

The company can take live or dead wood, but they must be clear-cut because if they are just thinned the remaining trees will blow down later. Email: wildfiremitigation@bouldercounty.org CLOSED DUE TO CORONAVIRUS PRECAUTIONS Hours: There was a problem saving your notification. If a fire can be stopped in the first few days after it breaks out, the cost can be held down to about $100,000. Some measures are designed to modify the forest environment surrounding a structure that puts the structure at risk from destruction by a wildfire. The Cameron Peak fire, west of Fort Collins, has wracked up a $61 million bill so far this year and burned severely in some areas causing nearly 100% tree mortality. The following resources are provided for informational purposes only. We recently published a story highlighting six examples of wildfire mitigation paying off in 2018.

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