Urgent Need for Wildfire Preparedness and Risk Reduction Funding
A new report, “Spreading like Wildfire: The Rising Threat of Extraordinary Landscape Fires,” published by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) found that the number of wildfires will rise by 50% by 2100. The report also found that governments are not...
CWPC’s Molly Mowery Interviewed by The Colorado Sun
CWPC Executive Director, Molly Mowery, was interviewed for the recent Colorado Sun Article, “Colorado doesn’t have a statewide fire-resistant construction requirement. In the Marshall fire’s wake, critics say it’s time.” The article highlights discrepancies in how...
CWPC Identifies Significant Gap in Colorado Counties’ Master Plan Wildfire Policies
Community Wildfire Planning Center (CWPC) released an updated version of its report Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface – An analysis of four western states: California, Colorado, Montana, and Washington. First published in February 2021, the...
CWPC Welcomes New Program Associate Katie Oran
CWPC is thrilled to announce that we recently expanded our team with a new program associate, Katie Oran.Katie is a California Native who is passionate about building a resilient future in a changing world. She will be working on a wide variety of CWPC projects to...
Canada Releases New National Guide for WUI fires
Canada now has a national guide for wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. Published by the National Research Council Canada, this new resource provides guidance on hazard and exposure assessment, property protection, and community resilience and emergency planning to...
Molly Mowery Shares Perspective on Wildfires and Development in Colorado with 9News
Denver’s 9News takes a look at how there is no statewide guide book in place for building property in Colorado, despite the risks of wildfires. Read more about this issue and hear CWPC’s Executive Director Molly Mowery’s perspective on growth and how the state can...
Planning for Wildfire-Resilient Communities in an Era of Uncertainty
CWPC’s Executive Director, Molly Mowery, provided this year’s Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture In Land Use Planning and Law, hosted by the Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center. Watch Molly’s lecture to learn more about the history of the wildland-urban...
Land Use Planning: Expanding the Wildfire Risk Reduction Toolkit
Read CWPC’s recent post featured on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog to learn more about how land use planning provides an important role in wildfire risk reduction....
Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface Report
CWPC released a new report, Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface—an analysis of four western states: California, Colorado, Montana, and Washington. This report provides a synthesis of how each state’s land use planning framework addresses the...
California implements new wildfire hazard disclosures on real estate transactions
Although natural hazard disclosure statements were already a legal requirement in California, recent legislation (Assembly Bill 38, 2019) now greatly expands the scope of the disclosure for properties located in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone. On or...