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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Full Community Costs of Wildfire

    Full Community Costs of Wildfire

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Almost half of the full community costs of wildfire are paid for at the local level, including homeowners, businesses, and government agencies. Read more

  • Communities Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Land Use Planning

    Communities Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Land Use Planning

    Kelly Pohl

    Updated: The Community Planning Assistance for Wildfire program now helps 30 communities reduce wildfire risk through improved land use planning. Read more

  • Planning Tools to Reduce Montana’s Wildfire Risk

    Planning Tools to Reduce Montana’s Wildfire Risk

    Kelly Pohl

    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

  • Fire & Flood: Lessons from Hurricane Harvey for Wildfire

    Fire & Flood: Lessons from Hurricane Harvey for Wildfire

    Kelly Pohl

    A lack of land use planning amplified the devastation from Hurricane Harvey. Wildfire-prone communities should take note. Read more

  • Resilient Taos County: Living with Wildfire

    Resilient Taos County: Living with Wildfire

    Kelly Pohl

    This story map provides Taos County residents with information about the ecological role of fire, the region’s wildfire risk, forest restoration projects, and emergency preparedness. Read more

  • Tennessee Wildfires: Now Is the Time to Plan

    Tennessee Wildfires: Now Is the Time to Plan

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    The wildfires that burned the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park devastated nearby communities and underscore the need to reduce the risks and costs of future catastrophic events. Read more

  • Does Insurance Affect Home Development on Wildfire-Prone Lands?

    Does Insurance Affect Home Development on Wildfire-Prone Lands?

    Ray Rasker, Ph.D.

    It is unlikely that insurance rates and policies alone will determine whether or not a landowner decides to build a new home on wildfire-prone land. Read more

  • Summary: Wildfire Costs, New Development, and Rising Temperatures

    Summary: Wildfire Costs, New Development, and Rising Temperatures

    Ray Rasker, Ph.D.

    This summary highlights the major research Headwaters Economics has conducted concerning controlling fire suppression costs, state case studies, and the growth of homes in the WUI. Read more

  • Rising Wildfire Costs Encourage Better Land Use Planning

    Rising Wildfire Costs Encourage Better Land Use Planning

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Five urban areas in the West and Southwest are taking steps to mitigate wildfire risks and costs through the perspective of land use planning. Read more

  • Land Use Planning to Reduce Wildfire Risk

    Land Use Planning to Reduce Wildfire Risk

    Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.

    Case studies show how five urban areas in the West are using innovative land use planning tools to adapt to the increasing risks from wildfires. Read more

  • Reducing Wildfire Risk to Communities: Nine Solutions

    Reducing Wildfire Risk to Communities: Nine Solutions

    Ray Rasker, Ph.D.

    This report outlines a number of solutions to alter the pace, scale, and pattern of future development in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Read more

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