The Home Ignition Zone: A guide to preparing your home for wildfire and creating defensible space
Guide / Pamphlet / Handout
This guide focuses on reducing wildfire hazards on an individual property. It is created for residents in Colorado, but could apply to other geographical areas or be used as an example for other state agencies looking to create similar guides. Read More
Farming Through Wildfire Season
Website / Interactive Map
Farmer Campus, in collaboration with community partners, created the Farming through Wildfire Season Program. You’ll find a self-led online course with a learning network of fellow farmers, a downloadable Fire Resilience Workbook, farmer-centered research, and a collection of producer stories to help you garner actionable solutions, deepen your understanding, and take away hands-on tools to... Read More
Preparing for Power Outages
Guide / Pamphlet / Handout
This page details some basic steps for responding to power outages during an emergency. It also covers important things to keep in mind if evacuating during a power outage, and provides links to other resources. Read More
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations: An Alternative Model for Wildfire Response
Research
This study analyzed the establishment, functioning, successes and challenges of the Rangeland Fire Protection Association (RFPA) model through four case studies. Case studies focus on individual RFPAs in Oregon and Idaho and their respective state programs during 2015–16. Read More
Emergency Preparedness for the Unhoused
Guide / Pamphlet / Handout
The Los Angeles County’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) partnered with first responders and community organizations to ensure that countywide preparedness and emergency planning efforts include people experiencing homelessness. This website includes a wildfire-specific pamphlet that includes prevention and preparedness messaging (in English and in Spanish). Read More
One Less Spark – Prevention Campaign Toolkit
Website / Interactive Map
This website provides a guide to the “One Less Spark” Campaign Toolkit, including campaign information, educational materials, public service announcements, graphics, and more. Read More
Investment in Prevention: Identifying A Growing Need for Reduction of Human Caused Wildfire Ignitions
Blog Post / Story
In this blog post, Gabe Kohler of The Forest Stewards Guild shares human-caused wildfire ignition research findings and reiterates the need for a focused investment in prevention education programs. Read More
Engagement in local and collaborative wildfire risk mitigation planning across the western U.S.—Evaluating participation and diversity in Community Wildfire Protection Plans
Research
This article describes the scale and scope of participation in CWPPs across the western United States, provides a detailed account of participants in over 1,000 CWPPs and examines how levels of participation and stakeholder diversity vary as a function of factors related to planning process, planning context and the broader geographic context in which plans... Read More