Foundation
Aspen Wildfire Foundation
EIN 93-3769620
Incorporated January 2024
(Formerly "Wildfire Community Action Fund" 2021-2023)
Aspen Wildfire Foundation 501(c)3 proactively reduces the destructive consequences of wildfire in our fire district and its connected landscapes. Since 2021, our work is in adapting our community toward living with fire.
Since 2021,200+ donations have helped AFPD raise $1 million+ to create a community wildfire program. We've received $150,000 in grants from the Colorado State Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management due to the demonstrated community suport in our district. We could not have done this without you!
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We are accomplishing proactive, collaborative, strategic wildfire mitigation and ecosystem stewardship. Learn more about our work.
About Wildfires
Fire plays a natural and regenerative role in ecosystems. Unfortunately, a century of well-intentioned fire suppression practices have caused a build-up of burnable material. Now, warmer seasons and regular drought are causing wildfires to occur more frequently, spread faster, and burn hotter. Bark beetles aren't helping the situation, either. By combining landscape scale stewardship with home hardening and emergency preparedness, we are working together to reduce wildfire's destructive potential in our community.
Community resilience means being proactive.
From homeowners to businesses, Forest Service to local nonprofits, we are working together to keep our town safe and our watershed healthy. We are working toward building a community ready to live with fire.
We provide homeowners with resources like wildfire risk assessments at no charge, risk mapping, tips for "home hardening" (making your property as protected as possible), evacuation preparedness tools, and more.
