Wildland fires can occur in residential development areas without disastrous loss of life, property, and resources.
Recognizing the problem and knowing how to protect your family, home, property, and neighborhood before a fire happens are the first steps to successfully becoming a Firewise USA® site.
The Firewise USA program offers free training geared toward homeowners, forestry professionals, and others on a variety of wildfire safety topics.
NFPA Journal Articles: Over 308 articles located in the NFAP Journal online with topics like:
- Community Risk Reduction
- Electrical Safety
- Home Fire Safety
- Building and Life Safety
- Research
- Wildfire
- And More
Community Wildfire Risk Assessment Tutorial
This online learning module is an overview of the wildfire risk assessment process, a critical step in the Firewise USA recognition process. You will learn how to evaluate your community’s strengths and vulnerabilities to wildfire as well as use that knowledge to inform your assessment.Upon completion of this tutorial, you should be able to:
- Identify environmental features that impact ignition resistance in a wildfire
- Using environmental features observations, record findings in the Firewise USA Community Wildfire Risk Assessment template
- Use recorded findings to draft a multi-year action plan to reduce site risk from wildfire
- Download the Community Wildfire Risk Assessment template
Use skills learned in this tutorial to complete your own community’s wildfire risk assessment and complete the steps to Firewise USA recognition.
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Understanding the Wildfire Threat to Homes
This online learning module is an overview of fire history, fire basics, and how homes burn. It’s an excellent resource for residents and other stakeholders that are pursuing knowledge on the basics of how wildfires ignite homes and the actions that can be implemented to make homes safer. The module can be completed in approximately 30 minutes.
Upon completion of this course you will be able to:
- Describe the threat of wildfire to homes and communities
- Explain the three things that can affect the speed and intensity of wildfire
- Identify the primary sources of ignition for a home during a wildfire
Use and share this knowledge to increase the potential survivability of homes and other community assets when wildfires occur.
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