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Teller County adopts 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan, authorizes non-substantive edits
Summary
After multi-stakeholder review, commissioners adopted a countywide 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan required by state law, with allowance for non-substantive text corrections and higher-resolution maps in a recorded change log.
The Teller County Board of Commissioners voted to adopt the 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), an update to the county's 2011 document required by Senate Bill 142. The plan will guide countywide mitigation priorities and grant-seeking while directing local fire districts, municipalities and HOAs to drill down to neighborhood- or parcel-level actions.
County staff and external partners presented the plan and explained it is an umbrella policy document; John Goodis, executive director of the Coalition for the Upper South Platte, and other stakeholders described the work as extensive and collaborative. The board approved a motion to adopt the plan "as presented and in accordance with the record-of-changes process" to allow non-substantive edits, higher-resolution map uploads and minor corrections without reopening the entire adoption process.
Why it matters: Commissioners stressed the CWPP is intended to coordinate mitigation, evacuation planning and grant prioritization across jurisdictions. The county emphasized the plan's role as a strategic framework, not a parcel-level evacuation directive: as the chair said, "This gives us the plan for how to prevent." The document also positions the county to comply with the state deadline and to continue applying for mitigation grants.
Details and next steps: Staff will work with GIS and the county attorney to upload higher-resolution, accessible maps and apply minor typographical fixes through the plan's record-of-changes procedure. The board noted the plan replaces the 2011 CWPP and that adopting it allows Teller County to present a consistent strategy to state and federal partners while enabling neighborhood-level plans and actions by individual fire districts and HOAs.
The vote: Commissioners voted unanimously to adopt the plan; staff said they will continue to refine maps and make materials available online.
