Understanding Home Resilience on the Front Range
Colorado’s risks are real and they’re specific. The guides here are written to help Front Range homeowners understand what’s actually happening — with the grid, with wildfire, with the systems inside your home — and what you can do about it.
Understand Your Risk
What’s actually happening out there — and what it means for your home.
What Is Island Mode? A Homeowner’s Guide to Whole-Home Resilience
The concept behind defense-in-depth resilience, why critical facilities have always built this way, and how to apply it to your home layer by layer. · 8 min read
How Wildfires Actually Ignite Homes (It’s Not What You Think)
Most homes lost in wildfires aren’t touched by flames. They’re ignited by embers — and that changes everything about how you protect your home. · 6 min read
PSPS and EPSS: What Front Range Homeowners Need to Know
What these shutoffs are, why utilities are doing them more often, how much notice you actually get, and why backup power is no longer optional in high-risk areas. · 5 min read
Colorado’s Grid Under Stress: Summer Heat, Fire Season, and What Comes Next
The structural reasons why power outages are getting longer and more frequent — and what that means for homes that depend on the grid. · 5 min read