The East Zone is comprised of approximately 1.2 million acres of USFS and BLM lands within Eagle and Summit counties.
East Zone fire is an interagency zone that provides Fire Management to several different agencies and districts including:

Bureau of Land Management
- BLM Field Office, Colorado River Valley, Silt

U.S. Forest Service, White River National Forest
- Dilllon Ranger District
- Holy Cross Ranger District
- Eagle District

Zone initial attack resources respond to about 56 wildfire incidents each year, with roughly half of those located within the wildland-urban interface. Initial attack operations are conducted in cooperation with eight fire departments located within the two counties. The Zone staffs a Type 6 engine crew in Eagle, Minturn, and Silverthorne.

Fuels within the Zone consist of grass/sage/pinyon-juniper at the lower elevations, aspen and lodgepole pine at the mid-elevations, and spruce-fir at high elevations. Most of the lodgepole pine in the Zone has fallen victim to a massive mountain pine beetle epidemic; efforts are underway to mitigate this new fire hazard within the wildland-urban interface areas in Summit and eastern Eagle counties.

The larger towns within the East Zone are Breckenridge, Dillon, Vail, Silverthorne, and Eagle.

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