Park County Rural Fire

Be FireSafe, Firewise & Fire Ready

You are your best chance of preserving life and property when wildfire strikes. It is often too late when fire is on the ground. You can protect your family and home with simple and effective measures that, when combined with the efforts of your neighbors and local fire departments, can protect your community from fire.

The Park County FireSafe Coalition supports FireSafe Montana and Firewise principals at the local level. We work with fire departments, landowner groups, businesses and individuals to promote fire education and mitigation efforts in Park County.

We live in an area where fire is part of the natural ecology; fire has shaped the land we love. Together, we can create a community that is ready for the next wildfire.

Learn what you can do by contacting one of the Fire Chiefs that can be found on the Contact Us page, or review any of the informational links to the right.

Learn how you can better protect your property from wildfire

Gallatin County Extension and the Northern Rocky Mountain Resource Conservation & Development Area, Inc. (NRM-RC&D) partner to assist landowners in Park, Gallatin, and Meagher Counties with creating survivable space around their home to reduce the danger from wildland fires. This program also addresses best management practices, forest stewardship, and tree insect and disease issues. The program provides technical assistance for landowners to develop and implement a hazardous fuels mitigation plan or a forest stewardship plan. Through grant funding we are able to provide cost share assistance to landowners who implement a plan. The grant funds assist landowners with paying for fuels reduction and forest health work (clearing, thinning, trimming vegetation). A Natural Resource Agent provides direct technical assistance to guide landowners through this process. $251,000 grant dollars was awarded this year to the Hazardous Fuels Reduction Program.  

Steps For Landowners
1.         Submit an application to County office or call:
www.gallatinextension.com or (406) 388-3213
2.         Site visit with Natural Resource Agent
3.         Receive property recommendations
4.         Decide to have work done on your property.
5.         Hire a contractor or do the work yourself
6.         Natural Resource Agent will let you know what grant money is available to help over costs
7.         Work begins
8.         Natural Resource Agent approves completed work and  provides agreed upon amount of financial assistance

· Free Property Assessment
· Cost-Share Grant Money Available

Application
Steps For Landowners
Fuels Reduction Standards
MT DNRC Home Evaluation
List of Fuels Reduction Forestry Contractors
2011 Annual Report