Defending your home from wildfire and making it more insurable will be discussed at a community meeting at the Green Mountain Falls (GMF) Town Hall on Monday, April 28. The event begins at 7 pm.
“We love our home in Green Mountain Falls, and we need affordable, practical, expert advice to lower insurance costs and defend our homes from wildfire,” Paul Yingling, chair of the town’s Fire Mitigation Advisory Committee (FMAC), said.
Sean Mullally, a licensed agency team member with State Farm in Woodland Park, will offer insights into how the company decides if a home is insurable and what owners can do to obtain coverage. State Farm is one of the few companies that still writes insurance in Ute Pass.
Don Moore, co-founder and leader of the NoFloCo Fire Mitigation Posse, Florissant, will discuss the group’s philosophy and proactive methods for addressing structure survivability against wildfire. NoFloCo is focused on helping private property owners living in the Wildland Urban Interface — areas where man-made structures meet or intermingle with forests and other wildland vegetation. NoFloCo also works to meet the National Cohesive Wildland Management Strategy’s goals of restoring and maintaining resilient landscapes, developing and creating fire-adapted communities.
NoFloCo is a 2025 National Fire Mitigation Award recipient for outstanding work and program impact in wildfire preparedness and mitigation. The award’s sponsors represent the U.S.D.A., U.S. National Forest Service, International Association of Firefighters, National Fire Protection Association, and the Association of State Foresters.
Panelists will take questions from the audience.
GMF and surrounding communities in Ute Pass lie in one of the highest wildfire-prone areas, according to the Colorado State Forestry Service. Under the FMAC’s direction, the town has mitigated more than 70 acres of forest surrounding it.
GMF’s town hall is located at 10615 Green Mountain Falls Road.
CONTACT: Paul Yingling paul.l.yingling@
