Wildfire Planning Services

The Kern County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) addresses hazards and risks of wildland fire throughout the county and makes recommendations for fuel reduction projects, public outreach and education, structural ignitability reduction, and fire response capabilities. Some of the highest-risk areas identified are communities located within and adjacent to National Forest land and the wildland-urban interface, as confirmed by the 2021 fires, particularly the French Fire.

The Three Rivers community is situated in the Sierra Nevada foothills, where several fire-adapted ecological communities occur, and where many of the large wildfires in California have been occurring in recent years. The shifting climate, particularly rising temperatures, combined with changing wind patterns, and increasing temporal and spatial variability of water availability, are considerably escalating wildfire risk across California.

In July 2021, SWCA released a story map to engage the public in the ongoing CWPP process for the City of Corona. The CWPP identifies priority areas where mitigation measures are needed to protect the city from irreplaceable life, property, and critical infrastructure losses because of wildfire.

Community members are familiar with large fires, as several have occurred in the eastern region and Tulare County itself in recent years, including the KNP Complex and Windy Fires that occurred in early fall of 2021. The Tulare County CWPP has been developed to assist the County in managing wildfire risk to ecosystem health and human life by assessing areas at risk and recommending measures to decrease that risk.

The 2022 Kenai Peninsula Borough (KPB) Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) update provides a peninsula-wide scale of wildfire risk and protection needs, brings together all responsible wildfire management and suppression entities in the planning area to address identified needs, and provides a framework for future planning and implementation of necessary mitigation measures as KPB’s first peninsula-wide CWPP.

SWCA worked with Santa Fe County Fire Department to develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. The SWCA Team developed an interactive Story Map to increase engagement with the Santa Fe County public during the Covid-19 Pandemic.

SWCA developed the Pope County CWPP, a county-level plan that evaluates wildfire threat to communities and infrastructure, and identifies measures that homeowners, land managers, and fire departments can take to reduce the impact of wildfire to life, property, and other community values at risk.

SWCA worked with multiple Colorado agencies and stakeholders to prepare a Post-Fire Playbook to serve Counties, Tribes, Municipalities, and Water Providers.

SWCA developed the Santa Clara CWPP, a countywide strategic plan with goals for creating a safer wildland urban interface community and to assist in protecting human life and reducing property loss due to wildfire throughout the planning area.

SWCA developed this CWPP to address the wildfire threat to communities in the Ridge, Manorville, and Calverton hamlets, and provide recommendations to abate catastrophic wildfire and to minimize its impacts to those communities.

SWCA worked with multiple jurisdictions and stakeholders to develop a Damage Assessment and Burned Area Rehabilitation Plan for the Ute Park Fire in northern New Mexico.

SWCA developed this CWPP to address the hazards and risks of wildland fire throughout Valencia County and make recommendations for fuel reduction projects, public outreach and education, structural ignitability reduction, and fire response capabilities.