Eagle Valley Wildland, 408 Carterville Road, Edwards, CO (2026)

09/23/2026

🔥 FIRE RESTRICTIONS LIFTED FRIDAY🔥

Some good news as we move into fall.

Effective Friday, September 25, fire restrictions in Eagle County will be lifted, and countywide fire danger has been reduced to MODERATE.

Recent moisture, cooler temperatures, and improved humidity have made a meaningful difference in our fuels. Our latest sampling shows that live vegetation has recovered significantly, while our large dead and down timber is also holding considerably more moisture than it was during the peak of summer.

🌲 What does this mean?

Conditions are becoming less favorable for rapid wildfire growth, but wildfire risk never completely goes away. Wind, terrain, and localized dry fuels can still produce active fire behavior.

🚒 Eagle Valley Wildland and our partner fire districts will continue monitoring conditions and maintaining response readiness.

This is also a great time to keep working on defensible space and wildfire mitigation around your home. The work we do now helps prepare our communities for next fire season.

Thank you, Eagle County, for your cooperation and commitment throughout a long fire season.

Fire Restrictions Lifted: Friday, September 25
Fire Danger: MODERATE

09/22/2026

WHAT IS EAGLE VALLEY WILDLAND?

Since 2020, Eagle Valley Wildland has brought agencies, communities, and partners together around one mission: building a more wildfire-resilient Eagle County.

Our work focuses on three areas:

🔥 Operations — responding quickly and keeping wildfires small.

🌲 Mitigation — reducing hazardous fuels before a fire starts.

🏠 Community Risk Reduction — home assessments, chipping, education, and working directly with our communities.

EVW is a partnership between Eagle River Fire, Eagle County, Greater Eagle Fire, and Gypsum Fire, supported by towns, metro districts, HOAs, POAs, and other stakeholders throughout the valley.

Those local investments also help us leverage state and federal grant funding—turning community support into even more work on the ground.

The goal is simple: prevent what we can, prepare for what we can't, and be ready when the call comes.

People. Forests. Stronger together.

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We invest in innovation.

EVW is helping advance early wildfire detection technology, including the Dryad sensor network, with the goal of improving detection and situational awareness across communities and jurisdictional boundaries.

09/17/2026

🌲✂️ COMMUNITY CHIPPING PROGRAM UPDATE ✂️🌲

A huge THANK YOU to everyone who participated in this year's Community Chipping Program!

Because of your efforts, we have seen record-breaking participation and removed a significant amount of hazardous vegetation from neighborhoods across Eagle County. Every pile chipped helps create defensible space, reduce wildfire risk, and build a more resilient community. 💪🔥

📅 Please note: The Community Chipping Program will be taking a break during July and August.

Historically, participation during these summer months has been very low, so we will be focusing our resources on wildfire response readiness and mitigation efforts during the peak of fire season.

✅ The good news: Chipping will return in September!

We will announce September dates and locations as we get closer to the fall season.

Thank you for doing your part to reduce wildfire risk and help protect our communities. Together, we are making Eagle County safer, one property at a time.

Stay safe, stay prepared, and stay tuned for September chipping dates!

09/17/2026

WHY DO WE SEND OUR WILDLAND FIREFIGHTERS ON ASSIGNMENT?

Because someday, the large fire may be here.

When conditions allow, members of the Battle Mountain Wildfire Suppression Module support large wildfire incidents across Colorado and the nation.

These assignments provide something we simply cannot recreate in a classroom: real-world experience on complex wildfires.

Our firefighters work alongside some of the most experienced wildland resources in the country. They gain experience in fire behavior, aviation operations, large-fire organization, communications, tactics, logistics, leadership, and decision-making under real conditions.

Then they bring that knowledge home.

Every assignment builds a more experienced firefighter, a stronger Module, and greater wildfire capability for Eagle County.

It also matters nationally. Wildland firefighting is built on a shared response system. When communities are experiencing significant wildfire activity, agencies from across the country send resources to help. We support that system when we have the capacity—knowing that when Eagle County needs additional resources, that same system will be there for us.

But local readiness always comes first.

We maintain seven-day staffing in Eagle County, and personnel are only made available for outside assignments when local staffing, fire conditions, and operational readiness allow. We do not sacrifice our ability to protect our own communities to support an assignment.

This is bigger than sending a crew to another fire.

It's training.
It's experience.
It's leadership development.
It's building relationships across the wildland fire service.
It's supporting communities when they need help.
And it's preparing our firefighters for the day a large, complex wildfire happens here at home.

We don't wait for the big one to gain experience.

We prepare for it.

09/17/2026

🍂 October Community Chipping Program is Here! 🌲

Fall is a great time to work on defensible space and wildfire mitigation around your home, and the Eagle Valley Wildland Community Slash Removal & Chipping Program will continue throughout October.

If you're trimming trees, removing dead vegetation, limbing branches, or cleaning up your property, we'll help get that material out of the neighborhood.

October pile deadlines:
• October 4: Red Hill/Sky Legend & Town of Gypsum/Two Rivers
• October 11: Eagle Ranch/Frost Creek & Town of Eagle/Eby Creek
• October 18: Edwards Metro/Red Sky Ranch & Cordillera/Singletree
• October 25: Wildridge/Wildwood, Eagle-Vail, Minturn & Red Cliff

🌲 Remember: We accept trees, logs, and branches up to 15 inches in diameter. Piles should be stacked high and neatly, kept clear of vehicles, and placed within 5 feet of the roadway—but never in the road or on the sidewalk.

Please review the attached flyer before building your pile. Construction materials, treated lumber, stumps, dirt, rocks, grass clippings, trash, weeds, and other non-chippable material **will not be collected.

Every property that completes meaningful mitigation helps make the entire neighborhood more resilient. Wildfire preparedness is a community effort, and fall is a great time to get the work done.**

Questions? [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])

09/10/2026

Thank You for Making This a Record Chipping Season!

We've seen incredible participation in this year's Eagle Valley Wildland Community Slash Removal and Chipping Program. Thank you to everyone who took the time to reduce wildfire risk around their homes and neighborhoods. Your efforts make a real difference in creating more fire-resilient communities.

Due to the high volume of participation this year, it can take up to 1½ weeks for crews to complete pickups across a scheduled area. If your pile has not yet been collected, please know that crews are continuing to work through routes and may still be making their way to your location.

We appreciate your patience as we work through what has been one of the busiest and most successful chipping seasons we've ever had.

If your pile remains uncollected after that timeframe, please contact us at [email protected] with your address so we can follow up.

Thank you again for helping make our communities safer and more wildfire resilient

08/31/2026

🔥 FIRE DANGER REDUCED TO HIGH 🔥

Recent moisture and improved humidity across Eagle County have allowed us to reduce the countywide fire danger from VERY HIGH to HIGH.

This is great news, but it does **not mean fire season is over.**

🌧️ Recent rainfall has helped our grasses, brush, and other fine fuels. However, our large dead and down timber—known as 1000-hour fuels—remains dry. These heavy fuels require sustained moisture over a longer period of time before we see significant recovery.

What does HIGH Fire Danger mean?

🔥 Fires can still start easily in dry fuels.
🌲 Fires that become established in heavy timber can still burn intensely and be difficult to suppress.
⚡ Recent and continued lightning means we may continue seeing new wildfire starts.
🚒 Local fire agencies remain staffed, prepared, and ready to respond.

The moisture is absolutely welcome, and conditions are moving in the right direction. We just aren't out of fire season yet.

Please continue to recreate responsibly, follow current fire restrictions, and do your part to prevent human-caused wildfires.

One less spark. One less wildfire.

08/27/2026

MEET THE BATTLE MOUNTAIN WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION MODULE

New in 2026, the Battle Mountain Module is a dedicated team of wildland firefighters focused on three missions:

Operations. Mitigation. Community Risk Reduction.

Built through a partnership between Vail Fire, Eagle River Fire, Greater Eagle Fire, Gypsum Fire, and funding from Eagle County, this team is already proving the value of regional collaboration.

The Module has responded to nearly every wildfire in Eagle County this season, providing additional initial attack capability and helping keep fires small.

When they aren't responding to wildfires, they're reducing fuels, completing mitigation projects, working in our communities, training, and building the skills needed for the next incident.

They've also supported wildfire incidents across Colorado, gaining valuable real-world experience and bringing that knowledge back home to Eagle County.

One team. Multiple agencies. One mission.

Protecting our communities and building a more wildfire-resilient Eagle County.

08/14/2026

🌲 COMMUNITY CHIPPING IS BACK THIS SEPTEMBER! 🌲

The **Eagle Valley Wildland Community Slash Removal & Chipping Program** returns in September!

This program gives residents an opportunity to remove hazardous vegetation from around their homes while helping create healthier, more wildfire-resilient neighborhoods.

🔥 **Why does this matter?**

Removing dead vegetation, thinning overgrown areas, limbing trees, and creating defensible space can significantly reduce the amount of fuel available to a wildfire. Landscape-scale mitigation is important, but protecting Eagle County also requires work around individual homes and throughout our neighborhoods.

# # # September Schedule

📍 **Piles stacked by August 30**
Red Hill / Sky Legend
Town of Gypsum / Two Rivers

📍 **Piles stacked by September 6**
Eagle Ranch / Frost Creek
Town of Eagle / Eby Creek

📍 **Piles stacked by September 13**
Edwards Metro / Red Sky Ranch
Cordillera / Singletree

📍 **Piles stacked by September 20**
Wildridge / Wildwood
Eagle-Vail
Minturn
Red Cliff

# # # Please Remember

✅ Trees, logs, and branches up to **15 inches in diameter**
✅ Stack piles HIGH and neatly
✅ Keep piles clear of vehicles
✅ Place piles within **5 feet of the roadway**, but NOT in the road or on sidewalks
✅ Materials must be free of wire and nails

❌ No construction materials or treated lumber
❌ No stumps, roots, dirt, rocks, grass clippings, weeds, trash, or bags of leaves
❌ No piles on paved surfaces or in drainage ditches
❌ Non-chippable materials will NOT be picked up

Full pile requirements are included on the attached flyer.

**Wildfire mitigation is a community effort.** Every property treated and every pile removed helps build a more resilient Eagle County.

Questions?
📧 **[[email protected]](mailto:[email protected])**

Please share this post with your neighbors and help us make September another successful month of community wildfire mitigation!

08/06/2026

🌲 Wildfire Mitigation Work Beginning in Buckhorn Valley 🌲

The Eagle Valley Wildland Suppression Module (Battle Mountain Wildland Module) will soon begin wildfire mitigation work in the treatment units identified on the attached map.

This project is focused on removing dead, diseased, and dying vegetation, along with reducing hazardous fuels that increase wildfire intensity and threaten nearby homes.

Our goal is simple:
🔥 Reduce wildfire risk to the Buckhorn Valley community.
🌲 Improve long-term forest health.
🚒 Create safer conditions for firefighters during future wildfire incidents.

This work is part of Eagle Valley Wildland's ongoing commitment to proactive forest restoration and community protection. By reducing hazardous fuels before a wildfire occurs, we can decrease the likelihood of catastrophic fire behavior while creating healthier, more resilient forests.

Residents may notice crews, chainsaws, equipment, and smoke associated with mitigation operations. These activities are planned, controlled, and are an important investment in protecting your community.

Thank you for your patience and continued support as we work together to make Buckhorn Valley more resilient to wildfire.
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