Working with communities to reduce wildfire risks through improved land use planning
CPAW Updates
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.
Almost half of the full community costs of wildfire are paid for at the local level, including homeowners, businesses, and government agencies.
A new home built to wildfire-resistant codes can be constructed for roughly the same cost as a typical home.
A new report in our Economic Profile System provides community-level data about wildfire hazard and potentially vulnerable populations.
Explore the number of structures destroyed in each state by wildfire. Structures lost—rather than acres burned—provides a more complete measure of the broad impacts of wildfire.
The new Wildfire Risk to Communities website features interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk. The CPAW team helped in its creation.