{"id":53248,"date":"2020-06-19T21:42:53","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T03:42:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/free-wildfire-risk-assessments-offered\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:03:25","slug":"free-wildfire-risk-assessments-offered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/free-wildfire-risk-assessments-offered\/","title":{"rendered":"Free wildfire risk assessments offered"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=a77b28d3-e374-495f-b227-2b34d3f6d0cd&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" alt=\"Firefighters bulldozed a line on the right side of this house, which helped stopped the 416 Fire from advancing through the subdivision. Falls Creek Ranch does significant fire mitigation every year.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Firefighters bulldozed a line on the right side of this house, which helped stopped the 416 Fire from advancing through the subdivision. Falls Creek Ranch does significant fire mitigation every year.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Terrance Siemon\/Durango Herald<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>During a site visit, staff will identify potential for structural ignitions, and explain how to create defensible space.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmbers are the reason for the majority of houses burned during a wildfire,\u201d Graf said in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Areas vulnerable to embers include wood decks, dry grass under decks, wood piles, vegetation, wood roofs and house vents without screens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will come up with a strategic plan to reduce wildfire risk on your property,\u201d Graf said.<\/p>\n<p>Grant money may be available to help cover a portion of the wildfire mitigation costs.<\/p>\n<p>To sign up for a free wildfire risk assessment go to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wildfireadapted.org\/home-wildfire-risk-site-visit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.wildfireadapted.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Firefighters bulldozed a line on the right side of this house, which helped stopped the 416 Fire from advancing through the subdivision. Falls Creek Ranch does significant fire mitigation every year.Terrance Siemon\/Durango Herald During a site visit, staff will identify potential for structural ignitions, and explain how to create defensible space. \u201cEmbers are the reason [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53249,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,13,84],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-53248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-frontpage-lead","tag-wildfire"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88248,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53248\/revisions\/88248"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53248"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=53248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}