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  • Join us on May 6!

    Apply for a $500 grant to work on a project that can make your community safer from wildfire. Deadline to apply: March 3.

  • New WUI report: Fire Department Wildfire Preparedness and Readiness Capabilities

    This report identifies critical factors that facilitate or constitute barriers to being better prepared and ready to mitigate a wildfire incident in their communities.

  • Updated Firewise Toolkit

    Learn about Firewise, find helpful tips about what to do during Red Flag Days, utilize the homeowners checklist to create defensible space and more in this free resource.

  • Read NFPA’s newest e-book

    Learn how resilient homes built with Firewise principles can be beautiful, affordable, environmentally friendly and life-saving.

  • Action steps for homeowners

    Wildfires don’t have to burn everything in their path. Learn 7 tips that can help keep homes from igniting in a wildfire.

  • Read the February issue of Fire Break

    A study that looks at WUI fire departments’ wildfire preparedness capabilities, a recent NASA study that connects wildfire and drought, and much more.

Saving lives and property from wildfire

From our blog

  • Video update from the Christchurch wildfires

    John Mackie with the Christchurch, New Zealand, Civil Defense provides a 5 minute video update to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News about the wildfires and current efforts of over 400 firefighters and air resources working to extinguish

  • Engaging youth in Wildfire Community Preparedness Day activities

    Involve youth in your community in Wildfire Community Preparedness Day activities by applying today for a funding opportunity for a wildfire preparedness activity no later than March, 3rd with funding provided by State Farm.  Getting young

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