West Region Wildfire Council

Fuels Program directly supports vegetation management fuels reduction/mitigation projects in high wildfire risk areas within the region. The fuels program offers a vegetation management cost share program which provides technical and financial assistance to plan and implement strategic fuel breaks, defensible space projects and other priority fuels reduction projects.The fuels program has resulted in wildfire risk reduction on 7,718 private wildland urban interface acres helping to protect hundreds of at risk homes.

Works to address the wildfire issue at multiple scales. Our programmatic pillars include:Understanding and assessing wildfire risk-at landscape, community and parcel scales.Emphasizing education-to elevate understanding of the wildfire issue and the emerging science related to techniques/ strategies for mitigating wilfire risk in efforts to further the discourse between community members, wilfire managers and others under the fire adapted communities umbrellaEmpowering measurable wilfire mitigation via, on site in person visits with trained wilfire mtigation specialists, delivery of site specific wilfire risk reducation recommendations, technical field assistance for designing and laying out fuels reduction, defensible space and vegetation management.Increasing the pace of multi scale wildfire adaptation in priorty high risk areas to complete measurable wildfire risk reduction activites that result in increased community and ecosystem resiliency.