FLOOD09598

• County: Huerfano
• Community: Huerfano County
• Stream Name: Arkansas River and Tributaries
• Basin: Arkansas
• Title: Huerfano County Regulations for Areas and Activities of State Interest
• Date: 6/1/1976
• Prepared For: Huerfano County
• Prepared By: Andrew Nigrini
• Floodplain - Doc Type: Miscellaneous

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in fire spread and intensity.

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(4) "Firesafe" means a combination of structural provisions,
changes, or adjustments to lands, properties and struc-
tures subject to wildfire primarily for the reduction of
fire damage to lands, properties, structures and contents
of buildings in a wildfire hazard area.

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(5) "Flare-ups" means any sudden but brief acceleration of
fire spread or intensification in burning or flame length,
usually of short duration involving only a small area,
but which may cause ignition of crown fires. This is
sometimes referred to as "torch-out".

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(6) "Fuel" means vegetation, debris, or other substances that
will support combustion.

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(7) "Fuelbreak" means a strategically-located strip of land,
variable in width, on which the fuel has been modified to
reduce the rate of fire spread so that fire suppression
forces can be utilized in relative safety to control a
wildfire. The term may include provisions for all-wheel-
drive access. Greenbelts, open space, forest openings,
riding and hiking trails, and underground utility ease-
ments may also be incorporated within fuelbreaks.

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(8) "Fuel Modification" means the manipulation of vegetation
to reduce fire spread and/or intensity.

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(9) "Ignition Source" means any device or method which can
ignite a fire.

(10) "Ladder Fuels" means fuels arranged between two separate
fuel strata, such as between the forest floor and tree
canopies, which provide vertical continuity and thereby
easy fire spread in a vertical direction.

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(lU "Low Hazard" means a timber density of less than 35%
conifer crown coverage. Fuels include but are not limited
to grasses and brush, other than oak, sage or snowbrush
ceanothus, aspen, cottonwood, willow, open conifer stands
and deadwood contacting the ground.

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(12) "Medium Hazard" means ei ther a timber density of 35-55'6
conifer crown coverage with a slope of less than 30%,
including but not limited to fuels of medium density
conifer stands with a surface fuel mainly of herbage and
litter, and some patches of reproduction and deadwood;
or a timber density of less than 35% conifer crown cover-
age with fuels including but not limited to grasses and
brush other than oak, sage or snowbrush ceanothus, aspen,
cottonwood, willow, open conifer stands, deadwood contacting

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