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an interdisciplinary collaboration on community adaptedness to wildland fire

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WiRē – Wildfire Research

The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Center is a nonprofit organization that works with wildfire practitioners seeking pathways to create fire adapted communities. Historically, immediate threats and wildfire response have garnered much attention and resources. While these efforts remain critical, expanding the approaches available to reduce risk while promoting pathways to fire adaptation is of paramount importance. Fire adaptation is about living with wildfire. It’s about creating safe and resilient communities that reduce wildfire risk on their properties before a fire, and supporting effective response when fires threaten a community. It is also about allowing fire on the landscape when it safe to do so, where it will help forests be healthy.

An Innovative Approach to Understanding Communities

About WiRē

The WiRē Center is an outgrowth of the WiRē Team, a research-practice collaboration focused on homeowner wildfire risk mitigation and community wildfire adaptedness.

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The WiRē Approach

The WiRē Team has a proven history with implementing a tiered wildfire risk assessment approach to inform wildfire education programs administered through the West Region Wildfire Council and FireWise of Southwest Colorado. This systematic collection of parcel level wildfire risk and social data for an entire community sets the approach apart from other models of…

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Key Findings

Our work crosses conventional boundaries between practice and research, so we generate products that speak to both communities.

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