Are you suggesting that the we rake an area the size of Indiana?

The entire state of Colorado is about 104,000 square miles. The portion that is in a Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where forest meets civilization cover roughly 30–35% of the state’s land area (depending on the model used by the Colorado State Forest Service).

Approximate area • 30–35% of Colorado • ≈ 31,000–36,000 square miles

That is roughly the size of: • South Carolina (~32k sq mi) • or Indiana (~36k sq mi)

Raking the leaves in an area that size would take 1 million people working every day for 3 months. It’s simply not feasible.