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Surviving Wildfire by
Every year wildfire destroys thousands of homes, devastates countless lives and burns millions of acres. And every year people who have lost everything say, "We didn't think it would happen to us. If only we'd been better prepared."
What you do before wildfire strikes could save your home. What you do during a wildfire could save your life. And if your home is damaged or destroyed, what you do now will make it much easier to put your life back together.
Call Number: TH9445.D9 .M37 2012ISBN: 9781936555154Publication Date: 2013-01-20- Firewise: Community Solutions to a National Problem by This book describes the nature of the hazard of wildfire and defines the wildland/urban interface. More importantly, it outlines what you can do to protect yourself, your family, your property and your community from this natural hazard.Call Number: SD421.3 .F57 2006Publication Date: 2006
- Developing a Cooperative Approach to Wildfire Protection by Fires in the wildland/urban interface are unique. They challenge both structural and wildland fire fighters, who are trained and equipped differently. Addressing the fire problems of the wildland/urban interface requires a community and interagency understanding of all resource management challenges associated with urban growth.Call Number: SD421.3 .D482 1997Publication Date: 1997
- FireSmart: Protecting Your Community from Wildfire by This guide provides practical tools and information for use by interface residents, municipal officials, land use planners, structural and wildland firefighters, and industries that operate in the wildland/urban interface. Primary topics include a description of interface issues, evaluation of interface hazards, mitigation strategies and techniques, community education programs, and regional planning solutions.Call Number: SD421.34.C2 1999Publication Date: 1999
- Community wildfire preparedness plan, 2013 Chicago Wilderness : community wildfire preparedness plan by "A study to look at wildland urban intermix/interface (WUI/I) vulnerability in a six county area surrounding Chicago, Illinois.The goal of this study was to develop a process for defining WUI/I with an analytical template so other entities within the Chicago Wilderness area could utilize the process to initiate their own plans."Call Number: SD421.4 .C432 2013Publication Date: 2013
Wildfire and Community by
Wildfires represent a growing threat to environments, to people, communities, and to societies worldwide, particularly in the United States, Southern Europe, and Australia. Recognition of this growing risk has highlighted a need to develop people's capacity to adapt to annually occurring events that could increase in frequency and severity over the coming years and decades. The goal of ensuring sustained levels of protective measures in communities susceptible to wildfire hazard consequences has proved to be elusive. This book examines why this is so and identifies ways in which sustained levels of preparedness can be facilitated. Major topics include: wildfire preparedness and resiliency in community contexts; socially disastrous landscape fires in southeastern Australia; landscape typology of residential wildfire risk; proactive human response to wildfires outbreak; forest fires in wildland-urban interface, wildfire risk management; “stay or go” policy in the line of fire; social dimensions of forest fire; the influence of community diversity; evaluating a community engagement initiative; response to fire threats; social media and resiliency; and building on lessons learned. Additional information includes the landscape fires in southeastern Australia, wildfire risk management in Portugal; fire preparedness in Greece, Cyprus, and the Pine Barrens in the northeastern United States. The findings of research programs being conducted in the United States, Australia, Europe, India and South America are presented. The book includes case studies on the analysis and proposed actions of the wildland-urban interface being faced by Central Chile and South America. This book will provide a comprehensive and systematic review of the wildfire preparedness research and its application to the development of risk communications and public education programs.
Call Number: SD421.34.A8 .W55 2012ISBN: 9780398088422Publication Date: 2012-12-14
Prevention and Protection Resources on the Web
- MRSC - Wildfire Prevention: The Wildland/Urban Interface
"This page provides links to useful information resources on wildfire prevention. The federal and state governments require that each county prepare an all hazard mitigation plan. Wildfire is one of the items included. Community wildfire prevention plans are not required, but most communities with identified wildfire hazards have orare preparing plans.The Community Wildfire Prevention Plan Handbook (CWPPHB) provides a guide for the preparation of wildfire prevention community plans. The Washington Department of Natural Resources has identified 199 communities in 34 counties at greatest risk to wildland fire (as of 2010), based on criteria in the wildfire hazard severity analysis developed by the National Fire Protection Association." -- MRSC Website - Policy Recommendations to Reduce Home and Community Loss From WildfireAn NFPA report on a 2022 summit of nearly 40 wildire stakeholder organizations to find consensus on funding for community-level wildfire risk reduction.
- National Interagency Fire Center
"Protecting Your Home from a Wildland Fire: Every year many families unnecessarily lose their homes and possessions to wildland fire. These losses can be minimized if homeowners take the time to become aware of safety measures to help protect their homes and complete some effective actions." -- National Interagency Website - A Case for Retreat in the Age of Fire
In the face of increased wildfire danger, communities in fire-prone areas are searching for solutions to keep their homes safe. However, some experts say that wildfire dangers can never be completely mitigated, and planning should begin for how communities should permanently retreat from fires.
This article was written by Emily Schlickman, Brett Milligan, and Stephen Wheeler of the University of California Davis, and originally published on The Conversation. - U. S. Fire Administration Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)
Explore these resources to help you prepare for a safe wildland fire response and to create and sustain a fire-adapted community. - A Socio-Ecological Approach to Mitigating Wildfire Vulnerability in the Wildland Urban Interface: A Case Study from the 2017 Thomas Fire"Despite the extreme wind conditions and interviewee estimates of potentially hundreds of homes being consumed, only seven primary residences were destroyed by the Thomas Fire, and firefighters indicated that pre-fire mitigation activities played a clear, central role in the outcomes observed.This supports prior findings that community partnerships between agencies and citizens are critical for identifying and implementing place-based solutions to reducing wildfire vulnerability." From the abstract.
- National Fire Protection Association's Wildfire Division
This site has information about federal Community Wildfire Defense grants, reducing wildfire risk to property, and access to free resources about preparing homes and other property for wildfires. - Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire
"Working with communities across the country, Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire (CPAW) provides land use planning solutions, communications assistance, and customized research to better understand and manage wildfire-prone areas and reduce risks." - CPAW Website
- Creating a Community Wildfire Protection Plan
This is a 2020 FEMA guide to assist communities in creating a Community Wildfire Projection Plan (CWPP).