Category: Report

This technical guide was compiled by CPAW to help community planners and municipalities incorporate wildfire-related landscape regulations into their codes and land use practices.

This analysis offers homeowners in Hawai’i who want to rebuild and/or retrofit to higher wildfire resistance detailed cost estimates for upgrading a home’s exterior walls, roof, deck, windows and doors, eaves, gutters, and near-home landscaping.

A new home built to wildfire-resistant codes can be constructed for roughly the same cost as a typical home.

A report analyzing the costs of constructing homes to three levels of wildfire resistance in California.

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. 

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.