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The new Wildfire Risk to Communities website—developed by the USDA Forest Service in partnership with Headwaters Economics and Pyrologix—offers maps and data about community wildfire risk nationwide. Read more
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Economic methods and data can engage diverse audiences and tell new stories to help cities make a case for climate adaptation. Read more
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Video and highlights from an event that brought together diverse community leaders to explore practices for building fire-adapted communities. Read more
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Wildfire hazard assessment maps can help communities build safer neighborhoods, prioritize mitigation resources, and adapt to wildfire. Read more
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Updated: For communities land use planning is more effective than logging on federal lands to reduce future wildfire disasters. Read more
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Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire (CPAW) is helping communities reduce wildfire risks and costs. Four new communities join 26 others this coming year. Read more
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Integrate socioeconomic and climate data to map neighborhoods at risk in selected cities. Read more
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A new home built to wildfire-resistant codes can be constructed for roughly the same cost as a typical home. Read more
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Video: Prioritizing climate resilience using Headwaters Economics tools. Read more
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Explore interactive maps of watersheds, wildfire, and the wildland-urban interface in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Read more
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Partners in Colorado’s San Luis Valley are working to better understand the impacts of wildfire to communities, watersheds, and quality of life. Read more
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Identify neighborhoods where overlapping wildfire threats and socioeconomic vulnerabilities may make people disproportionately susceptible to wildfire. Read more
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The number of western Montana homes in areas with high wildfire hazard has doubled, outpacing development rates in areas with low wildfire hazard. Read more
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Almost half of the full community costs of wildfire are paid for at the local level, including homeowners, businesses, and government agencies. Read more
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Explore all communities threatened by wildfires from 2000 to 2017. Read more
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The sortable table identifies frequently threatened towns and cities, including the different sizes and distances of wildfires from nearby communities. Read more
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A new tool helps the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico assess wildfire and populations at risk. Read more
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Identify neighborhoods in six Great Lakes cities that meet socioeconomic vulnerability criteria. Read more
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Updated: The Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire program now helps 30 communities reduce wildfire risk through improved land use planning. Read more
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County governments, fire districts and service areas, and landowners have many opportunities to reduce wildfire risk in the wildland-urban interface through land use planning tools and strategies, though challenges in Montana’s regulatory framework remain. Read more
