National Fire Plan Success Stories

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Alaska
"All Lands / All Hands" Action Plan in Alaska (PDF) ~ The Alaska Region of the USDA Forest Service leads an interagency effort to reduce the risk of wildland fire in the Kenai Peninsula. (Posted 3/15/05)

Arizona
Prescott Area Wildland Urban Interface Committee (PDF) ~ News article about the committee's continued work the to reduce the risk of wildland fire to homes in Prescott, Arizona. (Posted 4/14/04)

Arkansas
Ozark Firewise Assessment (PDF)

Colorado
Winiger Ridge Ecosystem Management Pilot Project (PDF) ~ Boulder County project focuses on "improving overall ecosystem conditions with a 'ecosystem-without-boundaries' approach to natural resource management." (Posted 2/1/04)
Estes Valley Landowners Provide a Model for Protecting Forests, Homes and Communities (PDF) ~ (Posted 2/1/04)

Connecticut
Connecticut Dry Hydrant Installation Program (PDF) ~ Cost share program has so far provided 53 hydrants to nine high risk wildland urban-interface zones with inadequate water supplies.

Florida
The Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research & Information (PDF)
Living on the Edge in Florida CD-ROM (PDF) ~ Educational CD-ROM produced by the Florida Division of Forestry to help citizens understand fire protection in the wildland/urban interface.

Georgia
Seminole Firewise Project (PDF) ~ Seminole County, Georgia gets fire-wise with the help of an NFP grant.
Mariner's Landing Project, Camden County (PDF)
Fire Locator Maps Project (PDF) ~ The Georgia Forestry Commission used an NFP grant to print new county fire locator maps for all 159 Georgia counties.
White County Project (PDF)
Mobile Firewise Trailer (PDF) ~ The Georgia Forestry Commission builds a mobile educational tool for Firewise.

Idaho
Idaho State Fire Plan Working Group (PDF) ~ National Fire Plan accomplishments of the state of Idaho in 2005.

Iowa
Wildfire Awareness in Iowa’s Urban/Rural Interface (PDF) ~ Iowa shares its success in increasing wildland fire and urban interface awareness and rural and volunteer fire departments assistance.

Kentucky
Firewise Communities Workshop (PDF)

Louisiana
New Trucks Improve Louisiana's Preparedness Statewide   (PDF) ~ The Louisiana Department of Forestry improves statewide preparedness with new water-carrying trucks.

Maine
Reducing Risk From Ice Storm Debris (PDF) ~ Maine gets better training, fire equipment and weather information to deal with ice storm debris.

Maryland
Cecil County Dry Hydrant Program (PDF) ~ Maryland DNR and others place 40 hydrants in Cecil County.
Maryland DNR Type 6X Wildland Engine (PDF)

Minnesota
Andover Fuel Mitigation (PDF) ~ A Firewise project in Andover reduced the city's risk to wildfire.
Cooperative Fire Management Briefing (PDF)

Mississippi
Reducing Fire Hazards in Hancock County (PDF)

Montana
Commercial Timber Offsets Mitigation Grant Costs (PDF)

Nevada
Mt. Wilson Project (PDF) ~ The Nevada Division of Forestry develops a fuels reduction plan for a rural community.
 

New Mexico
New Mexico Fire Plan (PDF) ~ A project to reduce "fire hazard and risk in New Mexico's wildland/urban interface."
 

New York
Responding to Adirondack Wildfires (PDF) ~ Additional funding for State Fire Assistance and Volunteer Fire Assistance Programs helps New York battle wildfires in the Adirondack Mountains.
 

Ohio
Wildland Personal Protective Equipment Grant Program (PDF) ~ The Ohio Division of Forestry uses NFP money to provide safer personal protective equipment for rural and volunteer firefighters.
 

Oregon
The Applegate Communities' Collaborative Fire Protection Strategy (PDF) ~ A strategic fire plan to reduce the threat of wildfire to a 500,000 acre watershed.
Rural Fire Protection Infrastructure and Planning and Development Project (PDF)
Dry Creek Drainage Defensible Space and Hazard Fuels Reduction Project (PDF) ~ Project to reduce wildfire risk near approximately 200 homes near Dallas, Oregon.
 

Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania - Firewise Communities (DOC) ~ Firewise Communities/USA program at work in the Pocono Northeast Region of Pennsylvania.
 

South Carolina
Hazard Mitigation at Clemson University (PDF)
 

Washington
Wildland Urban Interface Risk Reduction Project - Fire District #3 (PDF) ~ Wildfire Risk Surveys in the wildland-urban interface areas of eastern Clark County.
Family Forest Stewardship/Wildfire Hazard Reduction Cost-Share Program (PDF)
Pine Forest Owners Association--Fuels Treatment Project (PDF)
Kittitas and Yakima County Fuels Coordinator (PDF) ~ Project will study fuel hazards in the Kittitas and Yakima Counties to provide an overall hazard picture.
Portable Roundwood Processor for Value-added Products (PDF)
Kittitas County Sub-Division Retro (PDF) ~ "A comprehensive look at all developed sub-divisions within Kittitas County."
Wallowa Lake Forest Fuels Reduction Project (PDF)
 

Miscellaneous
Assessing and Mitigating Fire Risk for Landowners; Southern Wildland Urban Interface (PDF)
 

Want more? Additional success stories can be found on the National Fire Plan website at www.fireplan.gov.