California Wildfire Mitigation Program
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What Does the California Wildfire Mitigation Program Provide?
- Wildfire Home Hardening includes retrofitting homes with ignition-resistant materials and creating defensible space around homes and communities.
- Community and homeowner wildfire education on defensible space and home retrofitting.
- A framework that can be modeled throughout California communities.
- Financial assistance to support home hardening work for homeowners who qualify for the program.
Pilot Phase
After Conducting a statewide assessment of regions with elevated wildfire threat and social vulnerability, select counties were chosen as initial pilot sites for the Program. The analysis incorporated factors such as fire risk, climate change risks, and census data. The program may expand to additional counties in the future.
Click Here to view the County Selection for California Wildfire Mitigation Project.
The six social vulnerability factors prioritized for this Program include:
- Residents in poverty
- Residents with a disability
- Residents over 65 years of age
- Residents under 5 years of age
- Residents with language barriers
- Residents without a car
The analysis used social vulnerability data from the Center for Disease Control Social Vulnerability Index (2018) and only considered census tracts in the Fire Hazard Severity Zones.
