The Firewise program is an initiative that helps communities reduce wildfire risks by promoting collaboration among residents, local fire departments, and other stakeholders to enhance fire resistance in homes and surroundings. It encourages communities to create defensible spaces and implement safety measures to protect against wildfires.
Your local certified FireWise assessors in Superior and MIami
We’re paying locals to assess and clean up qualifying locations to speed up the process of making our communities more resilient to wildfires. We effectively need to continue doing this work forever. There will always be a wildfire risk in our area, it keeps getting dryer, and trimmed brush grows back. The more funding we have, the more homes we can make safer.
This is a real-time dashboard showing the progress of our complimentary cleanups we’re doing to implement recommendations from the assessments.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQL6FtTybwANoJWZbgsw_dIVycx40xryKd-rP3a3QAM1DHHRNZ1TrLRM4ikC2uW4yokO5F8RkxZl8am/pubchart?oid=216755529&format=interactive
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vQL6FtTybwANoJWZbgsw_dIVycx40xryKd-rP3a3QAM1DHHRNZ1TrLRM4ikC2uW4yokO5F8RkxZl8am/pubchart?oid=431766882&format=interactive
As you can see below, superior has a VERY HIGH risk of wildfire, higher than 96% of communities in the US. It’s very high in Miami and Kearny too.
https://wildfirerisk.org/explore/overview/04/04021/0400071300/
We have standard operating procedures, tracking systems, and a lot of lessons learned we’re happy to share with other communities so they can implement something similar in their own ways.