Preparing Your Home for  Wildfire Season

Learn more about how to prepare for wildfires, what to do when they occur, plus what LEA is doing to curb wildfire risks and protect the electric grid.

One of the most basic tips for wildfire preparation is creating defensible space around your home—thinning or removing trees and brush and picking up pine needles, grasses and finer fuels.

U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. (2021, April 29). Make your home wildfire defensible. https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/make-your-home-wildfire-defensible

Colorado State Forest Service. (2021, May 4). Protect your home & property from wildfire. Colorado State University. https://csfs.colostate.edu/wildfire-mitigation/protect-your-home-property-from-wildfire/

MT Fire Info. (n.d.). Prepare Your Home. https://www.mtfireinfo.org/pages/homepreparedness

Lincoln Electric Co-op. (n.d.). Wildfire Mitigation Plan. https://lincolnelectric.coop/2182-2/

LEA's Wildfire Preparedness & Mitigation Efforts

Click Here: Wildfire Mitigation Plan
 

With safety as our highest priority, we’re taking constructive steps toward mitigating the threat of wildfires in the communities where we live and serve.

The plan extensively details the co-op's:

The main goal of LEA's Fire Mitigation Plan is to implement an actionable plan to create increased reliability and safety while minimizing the likelihood that LEA's assets may be the origin or contributing factor in the ignition of a wildfire.

Commitment to System Reliability and Safety

At LEA, our dedication to providing safe and reliable electric service is our highest priority. A cornerstone of this commitment is our comprehensive, proactive work that protects our members and our system from outages and potential wildfire risk.

Vegetation Management

We systematically manage vegetation on all our transmission and distribution power lines for public safety and fire prevention.

Wood Pole Testing and Treatment

We proactively manage the physical infrastructure of our system to ensure its integrity and strength. We initiated a formal Wood Pole Assessment Plan to inspect and test our poles against National Electric Safety Code (NESC) design strength requirements.

Our goal is to actively manage the environment and infrastructure, ensuring a resilient power grid and the highest standards of safety for all LEA members.