Wildfire planning and management experience includes prevention, preparedness, suppression, prescribed fire, safety, risk management, and operational planning. Areas of planning and management include:
- Assessing wildfire hazards, fuels, and resource conditions, including surface, ladder, and canopy fuels; vegetation density and continuity; terrain; slope; aspect; wind exposure; access; and egress.
- Planning for prevention, preparedness, suppression, operations, wildfire safety, and risk management.
- Applying prescribed fire, fuel reduction, slash treatment, and vegetation management to reduce fuel continuity and improve resource conditions.
- Integrating wildfire considerations with forest health, wildlife habitat, soils and water, access, property use, and broader landscape planning.
- Prioritizing resources and coordinating personnel, equipment, agencies, technical disciplines, incident line officers, and inter-agency wildfire counterparts.
- Assessing post-wildfire conditions and planning recovery actions addressing erosion risk, soil stabilization, revegetation and reforestation, invasive vegetation, damaged or hazardous trees, woody debris, access, and restoration of desired property appearance and use.
- Developing and prioritizing near-term recovery actions based on site conditions, landowner objectives, treatment urgency, timing, costs, maintenance needs, operational feasibility, and opportunities to phase work over time.
- Integrating long-term wildfire resilience into recovery planning through vegetation establishment, forest structure, fuel continuity, fuel breaks, access and egress, and structure protection.
Wildfire risk reflects both property conditions and factors beyond a landowner's direct control, including drought, extreme weather, regional fire activity, suppression-resource availability, and neighboring hazards. Planning focuses on conditions that can be influenced and considers their relationships with vegetation, forest structure, wildlife habitat, soils and water, access, human safety, operational feasibility, and long-term property resilience.
Wildfire planning establishes priorities, treatment options, sequencing, timing, operational requirements, and maintenance needs. Coordinated treatments can reduce wildfire exposure, improve safety and access, protect valued resources, support forest health and post-fire recovery, and strengthen long-term resilience to future wildfires.
