Fire
- Slash burning ordinance passed by Gilpin County Commissioners as of Dec 20, 2011.Burning slash can be a cost-effective method of reducing hazardous fuels on private lands.
- To burn slash on your property, you must have two permits - one from the county and one from the state (for smoke). Burning without the permits will result in fines.
For more information, read the slash pile burn brochure.
- Gilpin County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) - on Gilpin County website
- Gilpin County fire protection is provided by volunteers from Gilpin County. Volunteer today -- call Timberline Fire Protection District at 202-582-5768.
Fire resources from CSU Extension
Home defensible space/fire mitigation
Newly updated defensible space fact sheet from the CSFS
New FIrewise Construction: Site design and building materials
- Home wildfire mitigation article by Jim Crawford
- Order a reflective metal address sign through the High Country Fire Auxiliary -- help your volunteer firefighters find you! Cost is $15, to order call: 303-582-1009.
- Firewise resources for homeowners
- Fire mitigation info and more from the Colorado State Forest Service
- Think about using the roads in the County as fuel breaks. Thin to create a shaded fuels break (you own the trees alongside County roads in many cases, not the County)
- You can subtract up to $2500 from your state tax bill for performing wildfire mitigation on your property. Use the Wildfire mitigation subtraction sheet for more information.
- Yearly/ongoing maintenance checklist
Evacuation preparedness
- Grab list and evacuation kit - pdf version
- Wildfire preparedness resources (sheet with lots of helpful links)
- Evacuation preparedness sheet to put on refrigerator
- Sample communication plan - know how to communicate with family and friends in a fire
- Family contact card
- Financial emergency preparedness fact sheet with worksheets
- Ready Colorado fire and evacuation planning and resources
- Plan for pets
- Plan for livestock -- visit the Gilpin Animal Rescue page
- Make a plan for people who can't evacuate themselves - sign up for evacuation assistance from Gilpin County.
- "Wildfire!Preventing home ignition" Excellent, thought-provoking video - what you can do to keep your home from catching on fire, even in the case of a crown fire.
- Preventing disaster: Home Ignitability in the Wildland-Urban Interface - another video on what you can do to reduce the risk of your house burning down.
- Ember storm demonstration -- a four minute video that shows how a house can catch fire from flying embers in a wildfire. Three different sidings and two different roof types are tested.
Videos:
- Fire outlook for the Northern Rocky Mountains
- More fire outlooks: http://gacc.nifc.gov/rmcc/predictive/outlooks.html
- Fire behavior in lodgepole pine - with and without pine beetle
