Address
1303 North Shields
Fort Collins, CO 80524
Phone
(970) 498-5303
(970) 493-2795 Fax
Office Hours
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Monday - Friday
(except Holidays)
Emergency Services Specialist:
Tony Simons
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Larimer County Fire Plan - A Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Additional Resources
Current Wildfire Status
Basic Information
Building
Planning
Estes Valley
Are you planning a community meeting? If so, are you interested in having a wildfire expert come to your meeting and present a brief update on the wildfire situation and what you can do to prepare yourself? If so, send the Wildfire Safety Specialist an e-mail. Please provide date, time, location and contact number, and they will contact you for further details.
Presentations
Firewise Construction Fact Sheets
Plains FireWise Kit [pdf]
Firewise Homeowners Kit
Complete Homeowners Kit [pdf, 1Mb]
By chapter along with additional information by related subjects.
Introduction [pdf]
You are at risk!
Access
Water Supply
- General Access information [pdf]
- Land Owners Guide to Private Access Road Construction
- Design and Construction Standards for Private Local Access Roads
Defensible Space
- General Water Supply Information [pdf]
- Larimer County Dry Hydrant (Brochure) [pdf]
- The Dry Hydrant Concept
Trees and Brush
- General Defensible Space Information [pdf]
- What is Defensible Space
- Creating Wildfire-Defensible Zones [pdf]
Construction Design and Materials
- General vegetation Information [pdf]
- Fire Resistive Landscaping [pdf]
- FireWise Plant Materials [pdf]
- Grass Seed Mixes to Reduce Wildfire Hazards [pdf]
Interior Safety
- General Construction Information [pdf]
- Construction Design And Materials [pdf, 1.2Mb]
- Construction Materials
What to Do When...
- General Interior Safety [pdf]