Montezuma County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
The Montezuma County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a 2022 update designed to enhance wildfire protection and preparedness for residents, local governments, and land management agencies. Its core objectives are to safeguard lives, property, critical infrastructure, and environmental values. The plan emphasizes comprehensive risk analysis, collaborative stakeholder engagement, and outlines mitigation goals such as implementing cross-boundary fuels treatment, improving property owner and contractor mitigation efforts, enhancing high-risk area access and egress, increasing municipal mitigation projects, expanding public education, and refining property addressing. The overarching aim is to foster community resiliency and public safety against wildfire threats.