Fire Mitigation

Fire mitigation is extremely important on real property due to the setting of the town. Mitigation removes “fuels” around your house that can create increased heat and exposure to your home in the event of a fire. Wildland fires include grass fires, brush fires and forest fires. The impact of these fires can be minimized or mitigated by creating a defensible space and taking action to reduce the intensity of a fire in order to help fire crews fight fires that may threaten your home.

Defensible space is an area around your house where fuels and vegetation are treated, cleared or reduced to slow the spread of fire. This area allows firefighters to protect your home from becoming an advanced fire. By creating a defensible space, you increase the odds of your home surviving a fire. Such activity as thinning trees, removing brush, mowing grass, removing debris from rooftops all reduce the intensity of a fire. Creating breaks in the vegetation including breaks within trees and around your home will  provide a natural barrier that assist in slowing a fire and potentially reduce loss.

The Town of Palmer Lake Fire Department are available to assist with the assessment for mitigation.

See the images below regarding the 2021 Slash/Mulch program or go to www.elpaso.com, www.colostate.edu/depts/csfs, or www.bfslash.org.