Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control

Name

Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control

Website

https://colorado.gov

Company type

Private

Founded year

1984

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Colorado

HQ country

Mexico

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control (DFPC) is a state government agency established in 1984 that delivers statewide fire prevention, fire control, and emergency response coordination services across Colorado. With a workforce of 251-500 personnel, the division protects those who live, work, and play in Colorado by coordinating fire suppression, prevention programs, and incident management activities in partnership with county, state, and federal agencies.

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Products and services

• Statewide Fire Prevention and Control Services Core fire prevention, suppression, and control services delivered across Colorado to protect residents, workers, and visitors from fire-related hazards.
• Emergency Management Coordination Coordination of emergency response and incident management activities with the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) and other partner agencies.
• Interstate Incident Management Qualification System (IIMQS) Implementation Standardized qualification system adopted in 2018 to ensure incident management personnel meet interstate standards for emergency response deployments.

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Ideal customer profiles1 record

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Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 August 2020The Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control supported the adoption of the 2018 Interstate Incident Management Qualification System (IIMQS), which aligns Colorado to current nationally recognized AHIMT qualification standards. This partnership ensures both requesting communities and providing entities receive qualified incident management personnel for coordinated emergency response.

Recent moves2 records

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Direct peers

• Oregon Department of Forestry: Oregon's state forestry agency with comparable wildfire prevention, response coordination, and forest protection responsibilities, serving a neighboring Western state's wildland-urban interface.
• CAL FIRE (California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection): California's state-level fire protection and wildfire response agency; the most directly analogous peer in scale, mandate (prevention + control + emergency response), and operational scope to Colorado DFPC.
• Texas A&M Forest Service: Texas's state-level wildfire response and forest protection agency providing prevention, suppression, and incident management services to a single state's geography — structurally identical to DFPC's mandate.
• New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department — Forestry Division: New Mexico's state forestry and wildfire resource management division providing prevention, suppression, and incident management services — a direct single-state peer to Colorado DFPC operating in an adjacent Western jurisdiction.
• Washington State Patrol Fire Protection Bureau: Washington's state-level fire prevention and control authority, with parallel functions in fire code enforcement, investigation, and wildfire response coordination across the state.
• Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (Forestry Division): Montana's state forestry and wildfire management division with overlapping prevention, suppression, and incident coordination duties serving a single state's jurisdiction, comparable to DFPC's Colorado footprint.

Others

• National Fire Protection Association (NFPA): Standards-setting nonprofit that develops fire safety codes and qualifications (including those underpinning AHIMT/IIMQS adoption that DFPC has aligned to); complementary to DFPC's operational use of nationally recognized standards.

Broad incumbents

• National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC): Federal coordination hub for wildfire response that manages interagency resources across states; DFPC participates in this network through IIMQS alignment, making NIFC a structural counterpart at the coordination level.
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA): Federal agency with broader disaster and emergency management remit that overlaps DFPC's emergency coordination function, particularly for wildfire-related declarations and federal resource deployment.
• U.S. Forest Service (USDA): Federal wildfire and forest management agency that operates at a broader national scale with overlapping prevention, suppression, and incident management capabilities — partners with state agencies like DFPC during major incidents.

Market position

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Key risks5 records

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Customer concentration

• Xx.com/COStateFire

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