West Region Wildfire Council

West Region Wildfire Council works with homeowners and partners to mitigate the risks from catastrophic wildfires to people, homes, communities and natural resources. We work in Delta, Gunnison, Hinsdale, Montrose, Ouray and San Miguel Counties in Colorado. Your support can help low-income and underserved people to benefit from our programs. Your donation also helps us to create fuel breaks to protect communities and thin vegetation along roads so firefighters can safely reach residents and homes.

A Letter from Our CEO

Help Western Colorado Homeowners become more resilient to  \Wildfire. The West Region Wildfire Council is a Western Colorado nonprofit that helps communities become wildfire-resilient, and one of the most effective ways we do that is by walking a homeowner’s property with them. Our Wildfire Ready Home site visits give families a clear, personalized look at what makes their home vulnerable to embers and flames, along with practical, prioritized steps to harden the structure and create defensible space around it. It can even lead to a Wildfire Ready Home Certificate to be used for insurance renewals and discounts. Many homeowners, especially in rural and lower-income households, simply can’t afford a professional assessment or don’t know where to begin, and that first visit is often what turns worry into action. Your gift helps us extend these visits to more homeowners across Montrose, Delta, Hinsdale, Gunnison, Ouray, and San Miguel Counties. Every $200 donated will fund one site visit and every dollar invested in mitigation before a fire saves thirteen times that amount in disaster recover. A single site visit can protect a home, a family, and the neighbors around them. Please give today to help us reach another household before the next fire season.

Tim Pinnow