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What is a Community Wildfire Protection Plan?? (aka: CWPP)
Becoming a fire adapted community that can safely coexist with wildland fire takes a concerted, ongoing effort by everyone who lives, owns property, protects, or manages land in and around this community. This CWPP provides recommendations for how to prepare your family to safely evacuate during a wildfire, how to mitigate your home ignition zone to give your house a chance to stand strong during wildfires, and how to protect firefighters engaged in protecting your community.
Even if you do not have a permanent home on your property, you can take steps to protect your assets, including the value of your property; areas that are heavily burned have less aesthetic and monetary value. More importantly, the work you do to reduce fire risk on your property can amplify the work that your neighbors do on theirs, resulting in greater risk reduction for everyone. Removing trees from along roadways can increase the visibility of your property to firefighters, increase the accessibility of your property for fire engines, and reduce the chance that non-survivable conditions can develop and entrap residents and first responders during wildfires.
Asotin County Community Wildfire Protection Plan, 2025 Update:
The 2025 Asotin County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a comprehensive update to the “2008 CWPP.” The CWPP includes a wildfire risk analysis, prioritization of mitigation activities, and implementation recommendations. Asotin County was divided into zones in the CWPP for comparing relative risk across the County, and each zone received specific recommendations to address wildfire risk and increase emergency preparedness (CWPP, Pg. 15).
The CWPP is a call to action to do your part to continue making Asotin County a beautiful and safe community. Emergency Management and conservation partners are here to support your individual efforts, and they are committed to taking action to reduce wildfire risk and increase emergency preparedness for the benefit of this amazing community.
Your Unique Hazard Zone and Mitigation Recommendations
CWPP zones are areas with shared fire risk where residents can organize and support each other to effectively reduce wildfire risk and enhance emergency preparedness (example: forestland vs. grassland). The CWPP document delineated 19 zones in Asotin County by considering clusters of addresses, connectivity of roads, topographic features, land parcels, land ownership, and local knowledge of community organization.
Each zone of Asotin County has different risks, and effective mitigation actions are targeted at the unique risks of each zone. Use this document to find out what zone you live in, and what you can do to mitigate and reduce your wildfire risks.
