
WILDFIRE DEFENSE FOR YOUR HOME & PROPERTY
What is Wildfire Mitigation?
Wildfire Mitigation, when done right, is the act of reducing Structural Ignitability by using fire resistant materials and science backed retrofits and reducing wildfire fuels density and breaking the continuity of fuels within your Defensible Space.
Why choose Wildfire Defense, llc?
1) We’re the only contractor in Durango and the four corners region that offers both Defensible Space Mitigation And Home Wildfire Hardening Retrofits. Why should this be important to me? Because doing one without the other is only half of the solution to protecting your home from wildfires and Insurance Companies are now demanding both.
2) We’re the referred Wildfire Mitigation Contractor for the top Homeowners Insurance Companies in Southwest, Colorado. Why should this be important to me? Because, We have a 100% success rate at saving homeowners from losing their insurance once you have a demand from your insurance company to mitigate your property to their standards or lose your insurance.
3) We also offer a proprietary Comprehensive Homeowners Wildfire Risk Assessment that will tell you:
If a property could possibly pass or fail an insurance underwriters inspection.
What mitigation work would need to be done in order to pass an inspection.
An estimate on the cost to mitigate the prescribed scope-of-work.
4) The managing partner of Wildfire Defense, llc is Terry Hunt—one of the few NFPA Certified Wildfire Mitigation Specialists in Southwest Colorado—who started in the business of wildfire mitigation in 1978 through forest fuels management. Terry has been asked to make presentations to the La Plata County Wildfire Advisory Board, Insurance Companies, Mortgage Companies and the Durango Area Association of Realtors.
So, who would you rather hire to do wildfire mitigation on your property? A tree service? A landscape company? A construction company? Because they’re all trying to slip into the business. Or a certified & recognized wildfire mitigation company that does it all and does it all right!
“We provide the solutions to bring your home and property up to compliance.”
Call 970-880-4669
To schedule your Free site visit & estimate.
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We are offering a Spring Assessment Special
If you live in Southwest Colorado, you are well aware of the unusually dry weather conditions we’ve had. The same conditions that brought us the 416 fire in 2018 and the Missionary Ridge fire in 2002.
We normally charge $400 for this comprehensive Wildfire Risk Assessment. As a public service, we are offering this assessment for FREE if you are a homeowner in the Durango or Bayfield area. The only difference is - you take the notes.
We live here too.
Call 970-880-4669
To schedule your Free Assessment.
Serving Southwest Colorado
DURANGO, BAYFIELD, HESPERUS, HERMOSA, TRIMBLE, PAGOSA SPRINGS TO HWY 84
Wildfire Defense provides the best bang for your buck. We live here too, so let us do the best job that we possibly can so that we can both live here for as long as we can. Right now, wildfire mitigation is the cheapest it can be, under certain circumstances it can be free for homeowners through tax incentives and cost share programs through organizations like Wildfire Adapted Partnership (WAP) or the Colorado State Forest Service FRWRM Grant which has most recently received an extra $15 million dollars which can be claimed by most entities in the Wildlife Urban Interface (WUI). We at Wildfire Defense will do our best to make your residence or business safe from wildfire. From embers to roaring flames, we look from the roots to the crowns looking for areas where a Wildfire can start and continue throughout your property and do our best within your selected budget to give your property the best chance it has at survival.
Now accepting new forms of payment!
“Wildfire Defense did an excellent job of fire mitigation on our property. They are knowledgeable, thorough, and very conscious of safe work practices. The team was committed to doing the work just as we wanted it done. They are really nice people to work with, and we are very happy with the results of their work. We highly recommend them and will definitely be calling Wildfire Defense again to continue making our property safe from wildfire.”