Wildfire Adapted Partnership

Wildfire Adapted Partnership, a tax-exempt nonprofit organization based in Durango, Colorado, receives federal grants to implement community wildfire mitigation and education programs in Southwest Colorado as a prime grant recipient (75% of recent awards) and as a sub-recipient on USDA Forest Service cooperative agreements and project grants.

WAP's customer concentration centers on two Interior and Agriculture agencies. The Department of Agriculture Forest Service's Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region) and the Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management's Colorado Region each fund two awards and together account for 100% of recent grant activity. WAP operates as prime recipient on two USDA Forest Service grants: a $1.48 million project grant to implement Archuleta County's Community Wildfire Protection Plan through April 2028, funded through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Community Wildfire Defense Grants program (CFDA 10.720), and a cooperative agreement running through January 2031 to continue fire education and fuels reduction programs across five Southwest Colorado counties (Archuleta, Dolores, La Plata, Montezuma, and San Juan) with annual deliverables including 150 treated acres, 80 public education events, 75 home wildfire risk assessments, and assistance to a minimum of 75 communities. As a sub-recipient, WAP delivers fuel mitigation work under a Colorado State University prime grant, conducting mechanical and hand thinning on 255 acres of greenbelts to protect 800 homes and implementing home ignition zone treatments following Colorado State Forest Service guidance.

WAP's capability portfolio is narrowly focused on wildfire resilience at the community scale — combining direct fuels reduction (mechanical and hand thinning), defensible space creation, home wildfire risk assessment, evacuation planning, and public awareness workshops. Combined dollars obligated across all awards total $2.1 million. Activity is sparse (one award per year or fewer over the past four years) and tightly geographically bounded to Southwest Colorado counties, with no indication of broader federal customer diversification or contract vehicle positioning.