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Community Wildfire Protection
Plans (CWPPs)
Overview
. Key Components of a CWPP in
Colorado . CWPP Publications
and Links
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Available Grant Funding: 2008 CWPP Grant Application (36 KB PDF)
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Overview
Community Wildfire Protection Plans are authorized
and defined in Title I of the Healthy Forests Restoration
Act (HFRA) passed by Congress on November 21, 2003
and signed into law by President Bush on December
3, 2003.
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act places renewed
emphasis on community planning by extending a
variety of benefits to communities with a wildfire
protection plan in place. Critical among these
benefits is the option of establishing a localized
definition and boundary for the wildland-urban
interface (WUI) and the opportunity to help shape
fuels treatment priorities for surrounding federal
and non-federal lands.
The CWPP, as described in the Act, brings together
diverse local interests to discuss their mutual
concerns for public safety, community sustainability
and natural resources. It offers a positive, solution-oriented
environment in which to address challenges such
as: local firefighting capability, the need for
defensible space around homes and subdivisions,
and where and how to prioritize land management
– on both federal and non-federal land.
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Key Components of a CWPP in Colorado
Participants
- Must include local government, local fire
authority, local CSFS representatives, and representatives
of relevant federal land management agencies
as well as other relevant non-governmental partners.
- Partners should assess community risks and
values, identify protection priorities, and
establish fuels treatment projects.
Plan Components Include:
- A description of the community’s wildland-urban
interface (WUI) problem areas, preferably with
a map and narrative.
- Information on the community’s preparedness
to respond to a wildland fire.
- A community risk analysis that considers,
at a minimum, fuel hazards, risk of wildfire
occurrence, and community values to be protected
– both in the immediate vicinity and the
surrounding zone where potential fire spread
poses a realistic threat.
- Identification of fuels treatment priorities
on the ground and methods of treatment.
- Ways to reduce structural ignitability.
- An implementation plan.
Level of Specificity
- A CWPP can be developed for any level of “community,”
from a homeowner’s association or mountain
town to a county or metropolitan city.
- Information contained in the plan should be
at a level of specificity appropriate for the
community.
- County level plans can be used as an umbrella
for community plans but should not be considered
a substitute. A county plan will not provide
the detail needed for project level planning.
Adapting Existing Plans and Combining
Related Plans
- If an existing plan already meets the majority
of the CWPP criteria, a community plan can be
adapted to meet the remainder of the criteria.
This need to be done in collaboration with community
members and relevant partners as listed above.
Learn more about Developing
a Community Wildfire Protection Plan. (662
KB PDF)
Guidelines
for Implementation (148
KB PDF)
Completed
CWPPs On Line (20 KB PDF)
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CWPP Publications
Preparing
a Community Wildfire Protection Plan - Handbook
(662 KB PDF)
Leaders
Guide for Developing a CWPP (209
KB PDF) - goes with the handbook
CWPP
PowerPoint Presentation (781
KB PDF)
CWPP
Minimum Standards (25 KB
PDF)
CWPP
Briefing Paper - May 11, 2005 (48
KB PDF)
Community
Wildfire Protection Planning: HFRA and Beyond
(1.47 MB PowerPoint Presentation)
Links
Healthy
Forests Restoration Act of 2003 Official Website
USDA
Forest Service's Interim Field Guide for the
HFRA
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