Counties, fire districts and fire safe councils
Draft or update a community wildfire protection plan: risk, fuels, past fires, priority treatments and a grant narrative, from public data.
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What you get
The first draft is free to read. Each document after it is drafted from the same confirmed facts.
Modeled on: 16 U.S.C. 6511(3)
From public data
Community Wildfire Defense Grant projects must be in a CWPP less than 10 years old.
Source: USDA Forest Service, Community Wildfire Defense Grants
Questions
Under the Healthy Forests Restoration Act, a community wildfire protection plan is developed collaboratively and agreed to by the local government, local fire department and state forestry agency. It identifies and prioritizes fuel treatments, recommends their types and methods, and recommends ways to reduce structural ignitability.
Community Wildfire Defense Grant projects must be in a CWPP less than 10 years old. The program gives priority to communities with high or very high wildfire hazard, low income, or a recent severe disaster.
The applicable local government, the local fire department and the state agency responsible for forest management must agree to it, in consultation with interested parties and the federal land management agencies that manage land near the community.
No. Firewise USA is NFPA's recognition program for neighborhoods of 8 to 2,500 homes, built on a risk assessment and a three-year action plan. A CWPP is defined in federal law and covers a whole community or county.
Related doors
Where is your Firewise community?
Where is the house?
Where do you want to burn?
Where do your crews work outdoors?
What's the name of your burn unit?
Which service territory does the plan cover?
Answer it and the project exists. Three more questions, then the draft.