Our counties’ Public Safety agencies have all enabled Everbridge, a text message emergency notification system that provides essential information quickly in a variety of situations, such as fires, severe weather, floods, unexpected road closures, or evacuation of buildings or neighborhoods. This is one of the best and fastest ways to stay informed of potentially dangerous events in your area.
Tip – after signing up, you can go back into your account and edit your subscriptions based on alert type and area.
Make sure we have the right contact info for you, too. You can add and edit your contact information in SmartHub or give us a call at 970.945.5491 and we’ll happily update it for you.
Live Wildfire Ready is a statewide collaborative effort that shares simple, practical, low-cost actions residents can take to prepare their homes and property for wildfire.
In addition to preparing one’s home, living wildfire-ready means being ready to evacuate during a fire. Inside, you’ll find great info on how to:
Homeowners in the Eagle River and Roaring Fork Valleys can sign up for free wildfire risk assessments to help protect their properties.
These programs provide:
Sign up here:
Fire in the path of a power line can keep entire communities without power for extended periods of time. We greatly appreciate our members’ help in keeping our right-of-ways clear of all vegetation and flammable debris (including stacks of firewood).
Throughout the year, we invest heavily in proactive prevention, including:
These efforts help reduce both outage frequency and wildfire risk and help us identify and correct system issues before they become failures.
Fire Safety Settings make the electric system more sensitive to potentially hazardous conditions, such as high winds or contact between power lines and vegetation or debris.
When fire weather conditions become significantly elevated (for example, during Red Flag Warnings in any part of our service territory), we may enable these settings to reduce the chance of ignition.
If a fault occurs, power is interrupted more quickly than under normal operations, minimizing the risk of sparks or arcing that could start a wildfire.
Because Fire Safety Settings are more sensitive than standard system settings, members may notice changes in how the system behaves during high‑risk fire weather:
Momentary Power Blinks
Brief interruptions may occur when the system quickly clears minor faults. Lights may blink but remain on.
Power Outages That Last Longer
In times of more extreme risk, the system is designed not to automatically restore power after a fault. All lines must be visually inspected by our crews before restoring power to ensure the line is safe before restoring power.