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✔ Step One: Convene Decisionmakers

• Form a core team made up of representatives from the appropriate local

governments, local fire authority, and state agency responsible for forest

management.

✔ Step Two: Involve Federal Agencies

• Identify and engage local representatives of the USFS and BLM.

• Contact and involve other land management agencies as appropriate.

✔ Step Three: Engage Interested Parties

• Contact and encourage active involvement in plan development from a

broad range of interested organizations and stakeholders.

✔ Step Four: Establish a Community Base Map

• Work with partners to establish a baseline map of the community that

defines the community’s WUI and displays inhabited areas at risk,

forested areas that contain critical human infrastructure, and forest areas

at risk for large-scale fire disturbance.

✔ Step Five: Develop a Community Risk Assessment

• Work with partners to develop a community risk assessment that considers

fuel hazards; risk of wildfire occurrence; homes, businesses, and essential

infrastructure at risk; other community values at risk; and local

preparedness capability.

• Rate the level of risk for each factor and incorporate into the base map as

appropriate.

✔ Step Six: Establish Community Priorities and Recommendations

• Use the base map and community risk assessment to facilitate a collaborative

community discussion that leads to the identification of local

priorities for fuel treatment, reducing structural ignitability, and other

issues of interest, such as improving fire response capability.

• Clearly indicate whether priority projects are directly related to

protection of communities and essential infrastructure or to reducing

wildfire risks to other community values.

✔ Step Seven: Develop an Action Plan and Assessment Strategy

• Consider developing a detailed implementation strategy to accompany

the CWPP, as well as a monitoring plan that will ensure its long-term

success.

✔ Step Eight: Finalize Community Wildfire Protection Plan

• Finalize the CWPP and communicate the results to community and key

partners.