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Teton County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update
Updates the 2011 Teton County CWPP with a new wildfire risk assessment of the county and its wildland urban interface, and sets short- and long-term actions to reduce wildfire risk and hazards.1
Facts from Teton County Board of County Commissioners public records, each linked by number to its source; checked November 13, 2026. Section notes by ePlan.
At a glance
- Where
- Teton County, Montana (county seat Choteau)1
- Lead agency
- Teton County Board of County Commissioners, Montana (plan prepared by Jensen Hughes)1
- Review
- Community Wildfire Protection Plan, documented as a county plan update meeting HFRA requirements1
- Legal citation
- Healthy Forests Restoration Act CWPP requirements, following Montana DNRC guidelines1
- Status
- Revised final version submitted to the client October 17, 20251
Timeline
Documents Teton County Board of County Commissioners published
What the documents say
2025 Teton County CWPP FINAL SIGNED (128 pp)
- Executive Summary
- Says the update reviews the 2011 Teton County CWPP and sets next steps for cooperative wildland fire protection on all lands in the county.1
- HFRA requirements
- Lists the HFRA requirements met: collaborative development, prioritized fuel reduction projects, and recommended measures to reduce structure ignitability.1
- Hazard and vulnerability assessment
- Describes a science-based assessment using topography, fuels, weather and wildfire modeling to find and prioritize areas of greatest wildfire risk in Teton County.1
- Short-term and long-term strategies
- Short-term actions are pre-fire planning and public outreach; long-term actions include landscape-scale fuel reduction, defensible space enforcement, funding, and building code enforcement.1
- Revision Record
- Tracks versions from the July 2025 draft through the August final to the October 17, 2025 revised final submitted to the county.1
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