Resilience at the Council of State Governments meeting
Patricia Hernandez Patricia Hernandez
Patty Hernandez is co-founder and Executive Director of Headwaters Economics. Patty has 18 years of experience in researching economic development, building partnerships, and developing technology solutions to help communities plan and adapt to a changing world.
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- Contribution The path to wildfire-resistant building codes in Colorado offers lessons for other states
- Building wildfire-resistant homes after disasters will save billions
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- Contribution Extreme heat is not just an urban threat: The risk to rural communities
- Contribution Community Wildfire Defense Grants benefit rural and low-capacity communities
- Contribution Cascading wildfire insurance issues impact local and state budgets
- Reinvesting in rural America
- News Wildfire mitigation, firefighting boosted by legislation, officials tell committee
On July 10 our executive director Patty Hernandez presented to 80 state legislators at the Council of State Governments West annual meeting on a wildfire resilience panel. Her top points: smaller communities especially need resources, technical assistance, and flexibility to protect homes from wildfire; updated codes and ordinances must be prioritized to make homes wildfire-resistant; and on-the-ground risk reduction can help rebalance insurance markets in a future of more frequent, intense wildfires.
Panelists also included Tyson Bertone-Riggs from Alliance for Wildfire Resilience and Eric Horn from Megafire Action.
