Wildfire Protection,
designed for your landscape
Moisture-rich landscapes that reduce wildfire risk and enhance the beauty of your property.
Wildfire mitigation doesn’t have to look like mitigation
At Fungal Solutions–Wildfire Ltd, we design and install living systems that work with your land to slow fire, hold water, and turn downed wood into rich, long-term soil.
Each project is shaped to the property: its slopes, its vegetation, and how you want it to feel and function over time.
We work with private homeowners and HOAs to create resilient and beautiful features that protect what matters most.
A different mitigation approach:
Fire resistant landscapes
Most mitigation removes fuel and leaves the landscape exposed.
We take the next step.
By integrating locally adapted fungal systems into wood and soil, we create landscapes that retain moisture, reduce flammability, and stabilize over time. What begins as slash and wood chips becomes a living network that is cooler, wetter, and more resistant to fire spread.
The result is a property that not only meets defensible space goals, but matures into something more resilient, more functional, and more refined each season.
We have an established record of securing fire insurance for our clients that hire us to coordinate and report on their mitigation efforts. We can also recommend local insurance agents and work with them to secure a policy for high risk homes.
Integrated Land Systems for Distinct Mountain Properties
Regardless of system type, all are created for immediate efficacy, since fungi enhanced wood holds 4-7X more water than wood chips and barren soil. The increased water content makes your property inherently less flammable.
1. Fungal Fire Barriers™
Living firebreaks designed to slow ground fire and hold moisture where it matters most.
These are low-profile, 1–2 ft high swales built from on-site wood and enhanced with locally adapted fungi. These systems intercept runoff, increase soil moisture, and reduce flammability, while complementing firebreaks at the property line.
2. WoodSponge™
Moisture retention built directly into the root zone.
WoodSponge systems surround trees and plantings with fungi-enhanced wood matrices that absorb and slowly release water. This creates a passive irrigation effect; reducing drought stress and lowering plant flammability without ongoing input.
3. BioBerms™
Stabilize steep terrain while building soil and retaining water.
Installed on slopes where erosion and runoff are a concern, BioBerms slow water movement and anchor the landscape. Over time, wood structures transition into stable soil, supporting plant life and long-term slope integrity.
A guided, property-specific Process
1. Private Site Walk
We walk the land with you, identifying risk, opportunity, and how the property naturally moves water and fire.
2. Custom System Design
Each installation is shaped to your terrain, vegetation, and goals, from immediate risk reduction to long-term landscape performance.
3. Phased Installation
Projects are often installed in phases, allowing work to align with seasons, budgets, and evolving priorities
4. Ongoing Stewardship
We return to refine, monitor, and adapt the system as it matures to ensure long-term performance. These systems acommodate new material every 3-4 years, aligning with the cadence of additional thinning.
designed for Mountain Properties at Scale
We work across a range of property types throughout Southwest Colorado and the Western Slope:
- Private estates (1–5 acres)
- Larger mountain properties (5–20+ acres)
- Shared landscapes, HOAs, and multi-owner landholdings
Each project is approached as a long-term system, not a one-time install.
We work with insured and certified arborists, other biological fire mitigation companies, and premier landscape design firms to build out lasting, resilient landscapes.
Protecting More Than Just Structures
Our work supports:
- Reduced fire intensity and spread potential
- Increased soil moisture and drought resilience
- Erosion control and slope stability
- Improved insurability and defensible space alignment
- Long-term property value and landscape durability
This is mitigation designed to perform and last.
Proven in High-Risk Areas
Clients typically come to us after:
- Insurance pressure or non-renewal concerns
- Large volumes of slash or wood chips on-site
- They try traditional fire mitigation and it leaves piles of wood chips and slash that is neither functional nor visually cohesive
We specialize in turning those conditions into long-term assets.
About us
Fungal Solutions-Wildfire Ltd is an environmental engineering firm focused on leveraging fungi to help mountain communities adapt to drought and high fire risk.
why the focus on wildfire?
Our founder, Dr. Lauren Czaplicki, holds a Doctorate, a Master’s, and a Bachelor’s focused on environmental engineering.
With Duke University’s Superfund Research Program, she coaxed native soil fungi to clean up legacy pollution from Superfund sites and noticed that when we restore fungal functioning, other things start working well too.
Wildfire prevention is tangled up with drought and waste management and water security.
Since moving to Durango, she’s added restoring the local water cycle to her list of problems to solve because some of the cobenefits of fungal restoration include fixing the water cycle, sequestering carbon, and boosting soil health….that and it’s hard to clean up legacy pollution when your town is burned down.
On this fire mitigation solution, we leverage a partnership with Jeff Ravage and his decades of experience as a wildlands fire fighter and applied mycological researcher (CUSP, CO CO, and Denver Botanic Gardens researcher). We also partner with local arborists and innovative landscapers to integrate these solutions into fire resistant landscaping
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