There
are several great reasons to develop a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP). First and foremost , a successful Community Wildfire Protection Plan provides a community with a set of objectives and actions specifically designed to address the threat of wildfire. These objecitves and actions can help:

• Enhance public safety
• Improve community sustainability
• Protect ecosystem health
• Raise public awareness of wildfire hazards and wildfire risk
• Educate landowners on how to reduce home ignitability
• Build and improve collaboration at multiple levels

A Community Wildfire Protection Plan is a critical tool required to obtain hazard mitigation grants through the National Fire Plan, FEMA mitigation grants, and others. Under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) of 2003, communities that seek grants from the federal government for hazardous fuels reduction work are required to prepare a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

The minimum requirements for a Community Wildfire Protection Plan as described in the HFRA are:

• Collaboration:A Community Wildfire Protection Plan must be
  collaboratively developed by local and state government
  representatives, in consultation with federal agencies and other
  interested parties.
• Prioritized Fuel Reduction: A Community Wildfire Protection Plan
  must identify and prioritize areas for hazardous fuel reduction
  treatments and recommend the types and methods of treatment that will
  protect one or more at-risk communities and essential infrastructure.
• Treatment of Structural ignitability: A Community Wildfire
  Protection Plan must recommend measures that homeowners and communities
  can take to reduce the ignitability of structures throughout the area
  addressed by the plan.

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