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Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Unincorporated El Paso County Community Wildfire Protection Plan i for Unincorporated El Paso County Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Unincorporated El Paso County “A Continuing Process” El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Services Division 101 West Costilla Street, Colorado Springs, CO 80903 ii Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Unincorporated El Paso County Contents Acknowledgements........................................................................................................ i Supporting agencies...................................................................................................... ii Fire Departments............................................................................................................................................ ii Forestry and Natural Resources..................................................................................................................... iii Emergency Management............................................................................................................................... iii Land Use and Planning.................................................................................................................................. iii Utilities.......................................................................................................................................................... iii Local Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Unincorporated El Paso County.......................................................................... iv Introduction ................................................................................................................1 Purpose, constraints, and goals ..................................................................................1 The Legislative mandate: A CWPP for the unincorporated County................................................................1 This plan does not replace local CWPPs .........................................................................................................1 The special role of military installations .........................................................................................................2 An umbrella… or a foundation........................................................................................................................2 The process of developing this CWPP.......................................................................3 A small steering team......................................................................................................................................3 Initial data gathering: Fire protection districts and sub units......................................................................... i Public meetings to gather concerns .................................................................................................................9 Research........................................................................................................................................................10 Draft review process......................................................................................................................................11 Adoption........................................................................................................................................................11 El Paso County: The physical landscape.........................................................12 Physiographic Descriptions .....................................................................................12 Northeast Sub Unit: The Highway 24 Corridor.............................................................................................12 West Sub Unit: The Foothills........................................................................................................................13 Southeast Sub Unit: The Plains .....................................................................................................................15 The human landscape............................................................................................16 A brief history..........................................................................................................16 El Paso County Municipal Populations .........................................................................................................16 Private ownership.....................................................................................................17 Public lands..............................................................................................................17 Pike National Forest ......................................................................................................................................17 Military installations......................................................................................................................................18 State Trust Lands...........................................................................................................................................18 County-owned land .......................................................................................................................................19 Municipal lands.............................................................................................................................................19 Colorado Springs Utilities .............................................................................................................................19 Mitigation challenges and constraints......................................................................19 Private ownership..........................................................................................................................................19 Economic factors...........................................................................................................................................20 Home Owners’ Associations and covenants..................................................................................................20 Fuel hazards in El Paso County ...............................................................................21 Why structures burn ......................................................................................................................................21 Two types of fuel hazards: Grasslands and Forest.........................................................................................21 Fire in El Paso County...........................................................................................24 Fire history...............................................................................................................24 Recorded wildfires in El Paso County...........................................................................................................25 Fire season ...............................................................................................................26 Fire causes................................................................................................................26 Community Wildfire Protection Plan iii for Unincorporated El Paso County Definition of wildland-urban interface (WUI).........................................................27 WUI = High fuel hazard + structures ............................................................................................................27 Where are the highest fuel hazards? ..............................................................................................................28 Where are the structures? ..............................................................................................................................28 The Wildland-Urban Interface Map ..............................................................................................................29 Community values to be protected....................................................................31 Lives and livelihoods ...............................................................................................31 Locally important structures ....................................................................................31 Infrastructure and lifelines .......................................................................................31 Natural values ..........................................................................................................33 County parks .................................................................................................................................................33 Cheyenne Mountain State Park .....................................................................................................................33 Wildlife habitats ............................................................................................................................................34 Wilderness.....................................................................................................................................................35 Recommended methods to reduce structural ignitability ...........................36 Thinning to create survivable (defensible) space.....................................................36 Survivable space in timbered areas................................................................................................................36 Survivable space in grassland areas...............................................................................................................37
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