Home & Lot Owners
After purchasing your land, there are mandatory VWP HOA requirements to keep your lot in order. Regular maintenance of removing hazardous fuels from your land (sick, dead and clustered trees as well as junipers) will reduce how hot a fire will burn and how quickly it may spread. Even though you are unsure as to where your house will be placed on your lot, you can still mitigate the fire potential on your land, and get to know what wildflowers and bushes grow on your lot and where they shouldn't grow and be planted (like next to structures and decks).
Below are 9 Links to learn more
Lot Maintenance
Click here to view the HOA's Lot Maintenance Policy for slash piles and the updated HOA letter with further guidelines you're asked to follow.
Slash Piles
Click here for Grand County's burning guidelines and permits for ONLY burning them in the winter, with daily permission.
Juniper Removal
Be aware that Junipers are highly incendiary and our HOA's guidance is removal of them from lots (noted in the updated HOA letter)
Thinning Trees
See below for more info on tree management.
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Landowner's Guide to Thinning Trees
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Lodgepole Pine Management
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Q-tip and Concerning Trees
We promote (here) removal of "Q-tip trees" (over 100 yrs old and needles only at the top ) and trees able to fall onto and block roads from traffic/evacuation.
Smart Landscaping
Use rock instead of mulch. Don't plant next to or under dwellings & decks. ALWAYS get ADRC approval for improvements.
Defensible Space
Go to bewildfireready.org for home defense and ignition zones info and know how to best protect your home's perimeter.
Code Red Notifications
Click here to get notifications from Code Red for active fire situations and evacuation guidance and changes.