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Objective

• Describe basic fire prevention, mitigation planning, planning elements, and standards.

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Introduction

• The goal is to develop and implement programs that maintain a high level of efficiency in both time and cost.

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• The fire prevention mitigation plan should represent current trends and management decisions based on management direction.

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• Activities must be simple and practical in order to plan, educate, and inform all people using the wildlands, as well as people who live adjacent to wildland and rural areas.

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• Effort must be focused on those causes which start the greatest number of unwanted human-caused fires and which indicate increasing trends.

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Recommended Planning Minimum Criteria

• Planning criteria should provide policy, direction, and establish implementation and program standards.

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Recommended Planning Guidelines

• Purpose• Introduction• Objectives• Problems

• Description• Large fire potential• Occurrence analysis

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Fire Prevention Treatments

• Education• Engineering• Enforcement

• Administration• Fire history• Charters• Cooperatives

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Recommended Planning Elements

• Identification• Identify

management units• Compartments• Communities at risk

• Unit vulnerability• Planned attack• Objectives• Compartment

vulnerability

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Recommended Planning Elements

• Risk analysis• Describe fire history• Catastrophic fire

potential

• Values at risk• Community at risk

planning criteria

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Planning Considerations

• Program options• General actions• Specific actions

• Non-personnel expenses

• Responsibilities

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The National Fire Plan

• Communities at risk - Agency

• Communities at risk - Vicinity

• Community at risk - assessment standards

• Community at risk - educational component

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Development of a Communication Strategy

“The Road Map”

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Fire Prevention/Mitigation Measures

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Public Education• Activities• Media• Bilingual• Youth programs• Burning Issues

• Adult programs• Arson awareness• Event management• The WUI

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Community Outreach/Involvement• Fairs, exhibits• Community Fire

Safe awareness• Firewise action

programs

• Preventing Home Ignitions

• Fire Safe Councils

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Engineering Elements

• WUI fuels assessment standards

• WUI fuels planning standards

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Recreation Areas

• Fire protection considerations• Fire prevention activities• Site evaluation• Establish standards• Agency requirements

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Enforcement

• Restricted fire use• Permit requirements• Code enforcement• Fire investigation standards• Fire inspections

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Enforcement

• Fire prevention patrol

• Fire prevention patrol plan to include tools, qualifications, types, activities, safety, etc.

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Administration

• Budgets• Staffing• Preparedness criteria• Training, skill development• Job standards

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Community Wildfire Protection Plans

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Community Wildfire Protection Plans

• Address wildland/urban interface (WUI) challenges

• Thorough, locally supported solutions

• Need leadership and teamwork

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Background

• Healthy Forests Restoration Act (HFRA)

• Speed up development and implementation of hazardous fuels projects

• Expedite environmental review authorities in the WUI

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Agencies/Communities collaborate on:

– Hazardous fuel reduction (HFR) project development

– Priority placed on projects identified in the CWPP

– Gives communities a chance to influence how agencies implement fuels projects

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Key Points

• CWPP developed by local government with help from federal/state agencies

• Plans can be simple or complex

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• CWPP plans should include:

– Forest/range conditions

– Values-at-risk

– Priorities for action

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CWPP Minimum Requirements• Collaboration

• Prioritized fuel reduction

• Treatment of structural ignitability

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• Three entities must agree on final content

– Local government– Local fire department– State land

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How CWPP Helps Communities

• Define appropriate WUI boundary

• Priority to projects that protect communities-at-risk or watershed

• Expedite NEPA procedures for CWPP projects

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Key Points• At least 50 percent of funds allocated for

HFR on FS/BLM lands must be for WUI projects – as identified in the CWPP.

• Communities with CWPPs should have priority when funds are allocated for projects on non-federal land.

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• CWPPs help prioritize projects as envisioned in the National Fire Plan and 10-Year

Comprehensive Strategy

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Summary and Review Lesson Objective

• Describe basic fire prevention, mitigation planning, planning elements, and standards

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