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Wildfire Prevention: The Wildland/Urban Interface
Contents
- About Wildfire Prevention
- Local Government Plans and Regulatory Provisions
- Local Government Public Information on Wildfire
- Information Resources
- Funding & Educational Opportunities
About Wildfire Prevention
- Healthy Forests and Rangelands - Information about the National Fire Plan (NFP), Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI), and related initiatives - A cooperative effort between the United States Department of the Interior (DOI), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and their land management agencies.
- Pacific Northwest National Fire Plan
- National Interagency Fire Center Prevention and Education
- This Thing Called Fire - National Interagency Fire Center
- Wildland Fire Prevention and Mitigation Resources - National Interagency Fire Center
- Model Codes
- Protecting Your Home from Wildland Fire - National Interagency Fire Center
- NFPA 1144: Standard for Reducing Structure Ignition Hazards from Wildland Fire, 2008 Edition, National Fire Protection Association (catalog description)
- Protecting Life and Property in Rural and Suburban Communities, by Jim Smalley, NFPA Journal®, November/December 2007 - Significant changes in 2008 Editions of NFPA 1141 and NFPA 1144 can help reduce losses
- International Wildland/Urban Interface Code, 2009 ed., International Code Council (ICC Catalog Description)
Local Government Plans and Regulatory Provisions
See also Fire Season Weed Abatement
- Community Wildfire Protection Plans - Washington State Department of Natural Resources
- Pend Oreille County, Washington, Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) (
5.98 MB), developed by the Pend Oreille County Interface Wildfire Mitigation Plan Committee in cooperation with Northwest Management, Inc., November 2005
- Cascadia (Chelan County) Conservation District Community Wildfire Protection Planning
- Clark County Code, Ch. 15.13 - Wildland Urban Interface/Mix Zone
- Okanogan County Comprehensive Plan, Ch. 3 - Fire Planning ( 1.26 MB)
- Richland Municipal Code Section 21.01.030 ( 66 KB) - Wild-Land Areas (building code)
- Yakima County Code Ch. 13.12 - Wildland Urban Interface Code
Local Government Public Information on Wildfire
- Franklin County - Preparedness Fact Sheet: Wild Land Fires
- Skagit County Firewise - Skagit County Conservation District
- Skamania County Firewise - Skamania County & WSU Extension Wildfire Prevention Program
- Yakima County Emergency Services - Preparing for Disaster: Wild Land Fires
Information Resources
- Fire Information and Prevention - Department of Natural Resources - See Wildfire information pages
- National Interagency Fire Center
- Forest Fire/Wildfire Protection (140 KB), by Ross W. Gorte Congressional Research Service
Updated January 18, 2006 - Firewise Communities/USA - National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program
- Fire Safe Spokane A nonprofit corporation that promotes and develops wildfire mitigation and education.
- National Database of State and Local Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs - A clearinghouse of information about nonfederal policies and programs that seek to reduce the risk of loss of life and property through the reduction of hazardous fuels on private lands
- Planning for Wildfires by Stuart Meck and Jim Schwab, APA Planning Advisory Service Report No 529/530, February 2005. MRSC Library Loan
- Reducing the Community Risk of Wildland-Urban Interface Fires, Public Entity Risk Institute's Symposium, October 14-26, 2001
- Fire Prevention in the Rural/Urban Interface: Washington's Backyard Forest Stewardship/Wildfire Safety Program Janean H. Creighton, et al, Journal of Extension, April 2002
- Landfire.gov - a five-year, multi-partner wildland fire, ecosystem, and wildland fuel mapping project sponsored by the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC)
- The Risk of Wildfire by Ilene Watson, Planning Commissioner's Journal, Spring 2005 MRSC Library Loan
- Wildfire Prevention Marketing Guide ( 82 KB), National Interagency Fire Center The intent of this guide is to provide the field Fire Prevention Specialist with the necessary tools to develop a wildfire prevention marketing plan. It has been designed to generate ideas and provide information to assist in the development of a successful wildfire prevention marketing program.
- Wildland Fire Management Section NFPA
Funding & Educational Opportunities
- Wildland Fire District Assistance Program - Washington Department of Natural Resources