Tools for Community Leaders
The links below can be used by a variety of decision-makers -- government agencies, planners, firefighters -- to better understand community-level wildfire issues. Search interactive maps to learn more about wildfire risk in your community, and explore a science-based, parcel-level wildfire hazard assessment and ranking approach.
- Community Wildfire Hazard Assessment and Ranking
- Learn more about the process of completing a community-wide hazard assessment, download forms, and see an example of how to communicate with your community via a simple web-based map.
- Individual community members can also be pointed to the interactive Homeowner Wildfire Assessment to complete a self-assessment of their property (a brochure explaining the features of the toolkit available to individual homeowners can be downloaded here (.pdf)).
- After-wildfire Resources
- Information and further resources on recovering after a wildland-urban interface fire. Tips for individual homeowners can be found here.
- Up-to-the-minute Wildfire News
- Read the top ten fire news stories from around the globe, updated continuously from Google News.
Tools For California Community Leaders
- California Active Fire Mapper shows the locations of active fires in California.
- Search-by-address Fire Hazard Severity Zone Webmaps
- New wildland building standards are tied to these updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps from CALFire.
- Search-by-Address Wildfire Maps for California
- Enter an address to find out which parts of your community are located in the wildland-urban interface or area of high fire recurrence.