by Kelly Pohl | May 30, 2018 | News
May, 2018. Following a year-long process of stakeholder engagement and public outreach, Missoula County, Montana adopted a new Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), including a comprehensive risk assessment, developed in partnership with the CPAW program. The...
by Kelly Pohl | Apr 8, 2018 | News
April, 2018. A new report measuring communities threatened by wildfire from 2000-2017 was released by Headwaters Economics, co-founder of the CPAW program. The report finds that more than 3,000 communities had a wildfire of 100+ acres burn within ten miles of town. At...
by Kelly Pohl | Apr 8, 2018 | Events
April, 2018. CPAW team member, Molly Mowery will be part of a panel discussion at National Planning Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, hosted by the American Planning Association. The panel will discuss “A Team Approach to Wildfire Planning” and explore...
by Kelly Pohl | Mar 2, 2018 | Events
February, 2018. CPAW team members presented at the annual International Association of Fire Chief’s Wildland-Urban Interface Conference in Reno, Nevada. The presentation, titled Building Costs and Risk Modeling to Reduce Wildfire Risk, summarized preliminary...
by Kelly Pohl | Feb 1, 2018 | News
January, 2018. CPAW team member, Molly Mowery, published an article with the American Planning Association about CPAW and resources for planners to better understand their wildland-urban interface (WUI). The article highlights the importance of spatially defining the...
