Welcome to the Colorado Wildfire Resilience Financing Dashboard

Developed in partnership between WaterNow Alliance, One Water Econ, and the Water Center at Penn this dashboard is an actionable resource designed to help Colorado water providers scale their investments in wildfire resilience interventions in their upper watersheds.

To get started, go to the decision-tool to explore the feasibility of debt financing your utility’s watershed health and wildfire resilience investments. By walking through several threshold factors the tool allows Colorado water providers to make an initial assessment of the feasibility of financing specific resilience interventions in their upper watersheds with municipal bonds, Clean Water State Revolving Fund loans, and Drinking Water State Revolving Fund loans.

The dashboard also has additional background information to help water providers use the decision-tool, including:

• An overview of the types of interventions Colorado water providers can deploy to achieve resilience to wildfires, improve water quality, increase recreation access, and other benefits,
• A framework for how to value the co-benefits of resilience interventions,
• How to build partnerships to help ensure success, and
• Guidance on financing pathways for Colorado water providers to pay for resilience interventions alongside other water infrastructure to get to scale.

The dashboard was created with generous support from the Innovative Finance for National Forests grant program. Contributors and collaborators also included the City of Greeley, the Coalition for the Poudre River Watershed, Denver Water, and the Colorado State Revolving Fund administrators.