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Wildfire

  • Crossover landscaping can enhance wildfire resistance and save water

    Crossover landscaping can enhance wildfire resistance and save water

    Doug Green

    Crossover landscaping that does double-duty for drought and wildfire resistance is becoming more appealing for communities looking to reduce risk in residential areas. Read more

  • America’s urban wildfire crisis: More than 1,100 communities at risk

    America’s urban wildfire crisis: More than 1,100 communities at risk

    Kelly Pohl

    More than 1,100 communities in 32 states face similar risks to Los Angeles and other places with recent urban wildfires, highlighting the urgent need for wildfire-resistant homes and neighborhoods. Read more

  • Austin, Texas: Built for Wildfire

    Austin, Texas: Built for Wildfire

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    In this ten-minute video produced by Headwaters Economics, learn how leaders in Austin, TX came to realize the magnitude of the wildfire threat, and how they brought together diverse interests to protect their community. Read more

  • Congressional wildfire commission lays out a new approach for wildfire policy

    Congressional wildfire commission lays out a new approach for wildfire policy

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    A new report from the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission recommends transformative approaches needed to overcome the wildfire crisis. Read more

  • Building for wildfire

    Building for wildfire

    Brent Powell

    In this video produced by Headwaters Economics, homeowner Brodey Simkins describes the tragedy of losing his home to wildfire and his commitment to rebuilding with wildfire in mind. Read more

  • Wildfire safety standards for Montana

    Wildfire safety standards for Montana

    Kelly Pohl

    Statewide wildfire safety standards are proven and cost effective. Montana can adopt standards to help make communities safer from increasing wildfire risks. Read more

  • The unequal impacts of wildfire

    The unequal impacts of wildfire

    Kelly Pohl

    See where wildfire risk intersects social and economic factors that can make it difficult for people to prepare for, respond to, and recover from wildfire. Read more

  • Living with wildfire

    Living with wildfire

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Watch “Living with wildfire.” Wildfires are an inescapable and necessary function of healthy ecosystems. In the past decade they have increased in severity and duration, killed more people, and burned more structures. Read more

  • Wildland-Urban Interface: The Problem, Trends, & Solutions (slides)

    Wildland-Urban Interface: The Problem, Trends, & Solutions (slides)

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Slide show: The wildland-urban interface is growing and wildfires are causing cause more damage. Land use planning is an important solution. Read more

  • Wildfire Risk Report for every U.S. community

    Wildfire Risk Report for every U.S. community

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    A new report in our Economic Profile System provides community-level data about wildfire hazard and potentially vulnerable populations. Read more

  • Montana wildfire risk is widespread and growing

    Montana wildfire risk is widespread and growing

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    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

  • Preparing for wildfires during a pandemic

    Preparing for wildfires during a pandemic

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Managing wildfires during a pandemic will test the capacity of our first responders, but individual homeowners can take steps now to reduce wildfire risks. Read more

  • Building for Wildfire Summit: Understanding How Homes Burn

    Building for Wildfire Summit: Understanding How Homes Burn

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Video and highlights from an event that brought together diverse community leaders to explore practices for building fire-adapted communities. Read more

  • Wildfire Hazard Assessments Inform Land Use Planning

    Wildfire Hazard Assessments Inform Land Use Planning

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Wildfire hazard assessment maps can help communities build safer neighborhoods, prioritize mitigation resources, and adapt to wildfire. Read more

  • Land Use Planning More Effective Than Logging to Reduce Wildfire Risk

    Land Use Planning More Effective Than Logging to Reduce Wildfire Risk

    Kelly Pohl

    Updated: For communities land use planning is more effective than logging on federal lands to reduce future wildfire disasters. Read more

  • Communities utilize land use planning to reduce wildfire risks and costs

    Communities utilize land use planning to reduce wildfire risks and costs

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    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

  • Building a Wildfire-Resistant Home: Codes and Costs

    Building a Wildfire-Resistant Home: Codes and Costs

    Kelly Pohl

    A new home built to wildfire-resistant codes can be constructed for roughly the same cost as a typical home. Read more

  • San Luis Valley Wildfire Risk

    San Luis Valley Wildfire Risk

    Kelly Pohl

    Explore interactive maps of watersheds, wildfire, and the wildland-urban interface in Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Read more

  • Wildfire, Watersheds, and the Wildland-Urban Interface in the San Luis Valley

    Wildfire, Watersheds, and the Wildland-Urban Interface in the San Luis Valley

    Kelly Pohl

    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

  • Austin Wildfire and Vulnerable Populations Tool

    Austin Wildfire and Vulnerable Populations Tool

    Kelly Pohl

    Identify neighborhoods where overlapping wildfire threats and socioeconomic vulnerabilities may make people disproportionately susceptible to wildfire. Read more

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