Communication Resources
- Homeowner Engagement Guide pdf
- Engage Your Neighbors pdf
- Overcoming Common Barriers to Action pdf
- Life With Fire Podcast: Community-Informed Wildfire Communications, With Isabeau Ottolini link
- Nine Tips for Talking about Fire and FAC link
- Know Your Audience and Choose Your Fire and FAC Words Wisely pdf link
About Fire
- Wildland Fire Glossary pdf
- Understanding “Risk” link
- Report of the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission pdf
- Life With Fire Podcast link
- Fire Ecology Chats Podcast link
- California Fire Science Consortium Youtube Channel link
- US Forest Service “Forestcast” podcast link
“Spreading Like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires“ is a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) strategy to address escalating wildfire challenges. It emphasizes climate change, land-use shifts, and their role in increasing wildfire frequency and intensity. The framework helps guide decisions on managing ecosystems by focusing on resistance (preventing undesired changes), acceptance (adapting to inevitable shifts), and directing changes to meet long-term goals.
The report predicts a global rise in extreme wildfires and calls for adopting the “Fire Ready Formula,” which integrates elements to better prepare and respond to wildfires worldwide
Insurance Resources
- WRAP: Wildfire Risk Working Group Consumer Help link
- Ten Tips for Finding Residential Insurance link
- Home Insurance Shopping Help Webinar link
- United Policy Holders Youtube channel link
- Wildfire insurance in high fire risk areas link
Toolkits
- NFPA Wildfire Community Preparedness Day Toolkit pdf
- Projects that reduce wildfire risk and increase preparedness can be accomplished by people of all ages with a variety of time commitments. You might be asking, “What can I do in a single day to help stay safer from wildfire?”
- Firewise Band Together Toolkit pdf
- Today’s wildfires are occurring with increasing frequency and magnitude, especially in high- risk areas. While these fires continue to happen, taking preventative measures can be a small way to help protect your home, neighborhood, and the safety of your family.
- Facilitator Toolkit pdf
- The facilitator tool kit is a comprehensive, easy-to-use guide to tools, methods and techniques for assisting groups with planning and improvement projects and interactive meetings.
- Fostering co-creation and participative community engagement with vulnerable communities at risk. pdf
- This toolkit provides recommendations that are specifically geared towards moving away from top-down, expert-driven, communication practices, towards a Wildfire Communication that is more inclusive, participatory, and locally embedded.
- California CWPP Toolkit
- This toolkit empowers communities to collaboratively develop wildfire protection plans, reducing risks to people, homes, and ecosystems. It provides essential resources, best practices, and funding guidance to enhance wildfire preparedness and mitigation efforts statewide.
Risk Communication and Socially Vulnerable Populations
Guidance for Practitioners with materials and principles for risk communication developed in partnership with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
- Risk communication and socially vulnerable populations webinar link
- Risk communication and socially vulnerable populations booklet pdf link
- Risk communication and socially vulnerable populations workbook pdf link