What We Are Building Together
FORGE Ute Pass coordinates the community-wide action that no single homeowner can accomplish alone — protecting every home, every road, and every neighbor in the Pass.
Beautiful. Threatened.
Worth Fighting For.
The Ute Pass is home to stunning Colorado mountain scenery — soaring peaks, dense pine forests, and mountain streams — within sight of Pikes Peak. The same steep canyon terrain and dense, unhealthy forest that makes the Pass so extraordinary also makes it one of the highest wildfire risk corridors in the country.
FORGE exists to protect this place — for the people who live here, and for the generations who will come after them.
Your Home. Your Insurance. Your Community.
Colorado homeowners insurance premiums have risen 130% over the last decade. Non-renewals in mountain communities are up 77% since 2018.
Starting July 2026, Colorado's HB 25-1182 requires insurers to factor community-level mitigation into their risk models — not just individual properties.
A community with a current CWPP, Firewise designation, and on-going fuels mitigation can directly improve every home's insurability in the corridor.
FORGE's work is not just about saving homes from fire — it is about keeping them financially viable for the people who live in them.
Every Home in the Pass Deserves Protection
Our communities are interconnected in the common threat of wildfire to our lives and our homes. We offer a solution involving a cadre of volunteers appropriately trained and funded, working together to achieve wildfire resilience.
We facilitate the development of the cadre of volunteers, identify and develop the programs needed by the community, and assist in fund raising and grant applications to finance these programs.
We will promote collaboration among all state and local fire districts, emergency management organizations, law enforcement, forestry service, volunteer organizations and property owners.
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