Cohesive Strategy Goals and Performance Measures
Wildfire crosses and affects all lands and resources regardless of jurisdiction and ownership. Each responding organization has a role in working together to protect lives, property and resources. Concise, mutually accepted goals and guiding principles are the foundation of a cohesive strategy. Clear accountability will ultimately promote transparency and aid oversight during the implementation phase. These overarching, broad goals and performance measures will be used as a foundation as regional tasks and actions and performance measures are developed in Phase II and refined in Phase III.
Restore and Maintain Landscapes
GOAL: Landscapes across all jurisdictions are resilient to fire-related disturbances in accordance with management objectives.
Outcome-based Performance Measure:
- Risk to landscapes is diminished.
National output-based metrics, in support of the national measure, will center on risk to ecosystems at landscape scales.
Fire Adapted Communities
GOAL: Human populations and infrastructure can withstand a wildfire without loss of life and property.
Outcome-based Performance Measure:
- Risk of wildfire impacts to communities is diminished.
- Individuals and communities accept and act upon their responsibility to prepare their properties for wildfire.
- Jurisdictions assess level of risk and establish roles and responsibilities for mitigating both the threat and the consequences of wildfire.
- Effectiveness of mitigation activities is monitored, collected and shared.
National output-based metrics will include indicators relevant to communities with mitigation plans and planned or completed treatments.
Wildfire Response
GOAL: All jurisdictions participate in making and implementing safe, effective, efficient risk-based wildfire management decisions.
Outcome-based Performance Measure:
- Injuries and loss of life to the public and firefighters are diminished.
- Response to shared-jurisdiction wildfire is efficient and effective.
- Pre-fire multi-jurisdictional planning occurs.