Free wildfire and land services in Montezuma County, Colorado

12 programs in 6 categories in Montezuma County. Every listing names its source; ring ahead before you rely on one.

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Montezuma County's Extension office is on North Chestnut Street in Cortez, and the wildfire work here belongs to Wildfire Adapted Partnership over at Durango, which covers the five south western counties between them. It will come out and go through defensible space and home hardening with you at no charge, and that visit is the first step of its cost share rather than a separate thing; whether the cost share follows depends on whether the parcel sits inside the narrower grant geography the partnership works to.

This summary was drafted by a machine from the listings on this page, and an editor has not rewritten it yet.

boundary from the US Census Bureau

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Why Sierra Log & Timber cares about your vacant land

Sierra Log & Timber mills cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California. A good part of our working week is spent with people who have just bought land, and the same thing happens every time: the grants, the chipping days, the defensible space visits and the permit desks are all real, and all scattered across a dozen county websites that do not link to one another. So we put them in one place and left it open. You do not have to be building a log home to use this, and reading it signs you up for nothing.

Nothing local is recorded for Montezuma County yet. What is on this page reaches it from the Colorado and national listings above, which is worth knowing before you ring anybody: the help is real, but the desk answering is not in the county. We would rather say that than pad the page. If you know of something here that belongs on it, the second panel below is the fastest way to tell us.

Building on rural land in Montezuma County

What applies here, in Colorado and in this county, each line with the source it was read from.

Where the building permit comes from

Montezuma County Planning & Zoning issues building permits here.

Source · Montezuma County Planning & Zoning

Worth knowing here

The Colorado Division of Housing lists this county among the jurisdictions it knows to have no building department.

Source · Colorado Division of Housing, Jurisdictions without Building Departments

Worth knowing here

The Colorado Division of Housing states that Montezuma County issues no certificates of occupancy and enforces no residential building codes, but requires permits before building.

Source · Colorado Division of Housing, Jurisdictions without Building Departments

Building code

Colorado has no statewide building code; building codes are adopted and enforced at the local level, apart from public schools and health facilities, manufactured and factory-built housing, and site-built hotels, motels and multifamily buildings in jurisdictions with no codes.

Source · Colorado Office of the State Architect

Wildland-urban interface

The 2025 Colorado Wildfire Resiliency Code is a state minimum code that applies to new construction and to significant exterior alterations and additions within the wildland-urban interface, and it is not a retrofit code.

Source · Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control

Who issues the permit

The Colorado Division of Housing lists sixteen counties it knows to have no building department: Baca, Cheyenne, Costilla, Crowley, Custer, Delta, Dolores, Kit Carson, Mineral, Montezuma, Phillips, Prowers, Saguache, Sedgwick, Washington and Yuma.

Source · Colorado Division of Housing

Building it yourself

A homeowner may personally do the electrical and plumbing work at their own residence and must obtain a permit from the State Electrical Board or the State Plumbing Board, or from the local building department, before starting, provided the property is not for sale, resale or rent.

Source · Colorado Division of Professions and Occupations

Common questions

Does Sierra Log & Timber run any of these programmes?

No. Every organisation and programme on this page is run by somebody else: a county office, a state agency, a nonprofit, a utility or a tribe. We collect them, check them and publish them, and that is the whole of our part in it. What we do ourselves is mill cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California.

Is this free to use, and does using it sign me up for anything?

The directory is free and reading it signs you up for nothing. The two panels below are the only places on this page that ask for an address, both are optional, and they do different jobs: one tells you when this county's listings change, the other tells us that something here is already wrong.