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.
- Contribution Additional benefits of wildfire-resistant homes
- Fieldnote The State of Disaster Recovery in Rural America
- Fieldnote Headwaters Economics presented with Montana Floodplain Program Ambassador award
- Contribution The path to wildfire-resistant building codes in Colorado offers lessons for other states
- Building wildfire-resistant homes after disasters will save billions
- News Is your Montana home at risk from wildfire? These tools can help you find out
- 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
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.
