Useful Information for Residents and Friends
Weather forecasts and red-flag warnings   Firewise - Make your home safe

• Current fire danger regional map - http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/subsets/fdc_o_rm.png
• Forecasted fire danger regional map - http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/subsets/fdc_f_sw.png
• Forecasted fire danger national map - http://www.wfas.net/images/firedanger/fd_cls_f.gif
• Large fire location national map - http://activefiremaps.fs.fed.us/lg_fire2.php
• CO drought conditions - http://www.drought.unl.edu/dm/DM_state.htm?CO,HP
• Other NIFC fire maps - http://www.nifc.gov/fire_info/maps.htm
• Latest national fire management situation report - http://www.nifc.gov/nicc/sitreprt.pdf
• Wildland Fire Assessment System - http://www.wfas.net/

Current Wildland Fire Information from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho

Fire weather forecasts
The latest fire weather forecast from NOAA can be found at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/include/fwz.php?zone=COZ225&site=PUB 
La Veta is in zone 225.

The statewide map can be viewed at http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/firewx/fire_mainmap.php

Current maps showing fire danger (FD), thousand hour fuel moisture levels (TH), and hundred hour fuel moisture levels in the lower 48 states - courtesy of the USDA Forest Service Wildland Fire Assessment System. These are great maps that explain why we have burn bans in the urban/wildland interface.

Firewise - making your home safer
Firewise information from the Colorado Springs Fire Department to provide residents an easy way to identify their home's wildfire risk and things they can do to reduce that risk. A must read for all who live in the urban/wildland interface!!