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Wildfire mitigation actions are on-the-ground treatments of properties implemented to reduce the chance of a wildfire causing damage. The Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS) is the lead state agency for fuels mitigation expertise in Colorado and an excellent resource for residents who want to gain more information and take steps to decrease the threat of wildfire where it matters most to them.
Remember that protecting a home, property and a community from wildfire is not a one-time effort. It is a process and requires ongoing participation, maintenance and shared responsibility. The following programs and resources are tools that can help residents and communities begin the process of reducing their wildfire risk.
Together, the Wildfire Programs Advisory Council will work to recommend and implement policies that will help prevent and better respond to wildfire, and create more fire resilient communities and landscapes in Oregon.
NOAA's National Weather Service works in conjunction with federal and state wildland managers to protect lives and property in and around America's wildlands. This site will help you prepare, be aware and act early if a wildfire comes your way. A list of partners can be found on the National Interagency Fire Center website. If you, or someone you know, have been a victim of a wildfire, please share your story so we can prevent others from becoming a victim. When you write, please note that NWS has permission to use your story and, if possible, let us know the town and state you were in and the year the event took place.
Wildfires are becoming more intense and more frequent, ravaging communities and ecosystems in their path. Recent years have seen record-breaking wildfire seasons across the world from Australia to the Arctic to North and South America. With global temperatures on the rise, the need to reduce wildfire risk is more critical than ever.
A new report, Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires, by UNEP and GRID-Arendal, finds that climate change and land-use change are making wildfires worse and anticipates a global increase of extreme fires even in areas previously unaffected. Uncontrollable and extreme wildfires can be devastating to people, biodiversity and ecosystems. They also exacerbate climate change, contributing significant greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere.
It's widely known that wildfire smoke is bad for your health, but a group of researchers recently found a known carcinogen in California wildfire ash, raising concerns about just how harmful it could be to breathe the air near a blaze.
"Up until that point, if we had a wildfire, I was pretty cavalier about it, to be truthful. We get the alerts and I would still go outside and exercise, thinking exercise was the better factor for my health," Fendorf said.
Though the researchers only found hexavalent chromium in samples of wildfire ash and not wildfire smoke itself, Fendorf said they inferred that it was likely also present in the smoke. He said the team intends to collect samples from wildfire smoke in the future to test that hypothesis.
Metals such as chromium naturally exist in the environment, such as in rocks like serpentinite. In this case, Fendorf said, the wildfires' intense heat appears to have transformed chromium into its hexavalent state.
The status of a wildfire suppression action signifying that a control line has been completed around the fire, and any associated spot fires, which can reasonably be expected to stop the fire's spread.
Because wildfire is not specific to jurisdictional boundaries, the CWPP hazard and risk analyses area will include a 2 mile buffer around the City Wildland Urban Interface area to evaluate its impact on the City.
Following City Council approval of the CWPP, City staff may proceed with preparing Implementation Plans. The Implementation Plans should identify the specific actions and steps needed to implement those actions. Any actions that require site specific treatments to address wildfire hazard in City-owned lands may require environmental review under the California Environmental Quality Act and permitting.
Decades following the 1964 Hanley and Nuns fires, there were a few large damaging wildfires in Sonoma County. This abruptly changed in 2017 when the Sonoma Complex fires forever changed our county. Since then, every fire season has brought traumatic and devastating fires, and wildfire has become a day-to-day reality for County residents. To address this reality, the County is undergoing the process of updating our Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
Defined by the 2003 United States Congress Healthy Forests Restoration Act, the goal of a CWPP is to enhance efforts to protect communities, watersheds, and other at-risk lands from catastrophic wildfire events. A CWPP is not a regulatory document, but provides wildfire hazard and risk assessments, community descriptions, options for addressing issues of structural vulnerability to wildfire (Home Hardening), and provides a prioritized list of projects which, if implemented, can serve to reduce wildfire hazards.
A CWPP is one of the best tools we have to make progress in adapting our county to a wildfire-prone environment. The CWPP will contain hazard and risk analyses and, using a collaborative model, will suggest projects that can efficiently reduce the risk of loss of life, property loss, and environmental damage.
This regulation is part of a comprehensive solution that Commissioner Lara initiated after taking office to protect consumers from climate change-intensified wildfires. When Commissioner Lara took office in 2019, insurance companies representing 7 percent of the residential market provided insurance discounts and, under his leadership, that figure has grown to 40 percent. When this regulation is fully implemented, it will be 100 percent of the residential and commercial market aligned with the Safer from Wildfires framework.
The National Significant Wildland Fire Potential Outlook, produced by the predictive services staff at the National Interagency Coordination Center was released on December 1 and above normal wildfire potential is possible in Hawaii over the next three months. The current wildland fire potential outlook and the monthly seasonal outlook podcast is also available.
This document, originally developed by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), is designed to help local public health officials prepare for smoke events, to take measures to protect the public when smoke is present, and communicate with the public about wildfire smoke and health.
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a planning document that results from a collaborative planning effort. The process brings together a diverse group of stakeholders including local government, the Colorado State Forest Service (CSFS), local fire protection districts, and community members. The effort identifies and prioritizes measures to protect life, property, and critical infrastructure in the wildland urban interface (WUI) during a wildfire event. The CWPP analyzes areas of interest including hazard mitigation, wildfire response ability, community preparedness, and structural ignitability. All Colorado CWPPs must meet the Colorado State Forest Service CWPP Minimum Standards.
By actively implementing this plan, residents, communities, and organizations in Boulder County will significantly increase and improve wildfire mitigation and preparedness efforts in advance of wildfires to help reduce the high risks and enormous costs associated with wildfire in Boulder County.
In April 2023, the Boulder County Community Planning and Permitting wildfire team applied for and was awarded a Colorado State Forest Service Incentives for Local Government grant (ILG) and a Colorado State Forest Service Healthy Forests and Vibrant Act grant (HFVA) to hire a professional consultant to conduct a county wide wildland fire risk assessment, and facilitate community engagement events and develop the CWPP, which will include a story map and recommendation project tracking application and dashboard.
CWPPs help prepare communities for wildfire. If your community is located in or near the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and there is a demonstrated wildfire risk, a CWPP can be excellent tool to gain community support to raise awareness about wildfire threat and gain support to mitigate hazards.
Communities benefit from a CWPP by learning about how to be more prepared for wildfire. Additionally, the CWPP can influence where and how state, federal, and local monies are spent on hazardous fuels reduction. Communities with CWPPs can compete for public funding to implement hazardous fuels reduction projects. Through this process, communities can work cooperatively with technical and public safety experts to address wildfire hazards in their communities.
In April 2023, the Boulder County Community Planning and Permitting wildfire team applied for and was awarded a Colorado State Forest Service Incentives for Local Government (ILG) grant and a Colorado State Forest Service Healthy Forests and Vibrant Act (HFVA) grant to help fund hiring a professional consultant to conduct a county wide wildland fire risk assessment, facilitate community engagement events and develop the CWPP.
CWPPs help protect and prepare communities in the event of a wildfire. If your community resides in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and you believe there is a risk of wildfire, a CWPP can be excellent tool to gain community support to raise awareness about wildfire threat and gain support to mitigate hazards. The most successful CWPPs are those with grass roots efforts.
Communities benefit from a CWPP by being more prepared for wildfire. A CWPP can influence where and how state, federal and local monies are spent on hazardous fuels reduction. Communities with CWPPs can compete competitively for public funding to implement hazardous fuels reduction projects. Communities can work cooperatively with technical and public safety experts to reduce vulnerability to wildfire hazards in their communities. Communities can take ownership of efforts to reduce wildfire hazards in their communities.
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