proactive measures to take before an emergency
- Get READY by preparing now for what threatens your home.
- Be SET by maintaining awareness of significant danger.
- GO, evacuate immediately when the danger is current and life-threatening.
Learn more - click the READY - SET - GO button below.
WEATHER, TOPOGRAPHY, AND FUEL
These three factors influence wildland fire behavior and the chances of a fire starting.
They effect:
- the speed and direction at which a fire will travel
- the intensity at which it burns
- the ability to control and extinguish it
Weather or topography cannot realistically be changed, but fuels (or vegetation) can be modified.
Opportunities to reduce wildfire risk lie in proper management of vegetation and use of building materials.
Learn more and find out what you can to to protect your home and help keep your community safe from wildfires.
- Use a lightweight stove for cooking
- Enjoy a candle lantern for light.
- Use established fire rings, pans, or mound fires where fires are permitted.
- Keep fires small.
- Use only sticks from the ground that can be broken by hand.
- Burn all wood and coals to ash
- Put out campfires completely, then scatter cool ashes.
- FLFD submitted a proposal for a follow-on grant for 2025-2026.
- ADFFM has allocated all available funding to other more needy communities.
- There may be another opportunity for grant funding in 2027-2028.
- Even though grant funding is not currently available property owners are encourage to treat and maintain their lots.
- Firewise standards is about 70 trees per acre (see diagram below)
