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Title: Alaska -- Firewise Community Action Program
Type: Education
Jurisdiction: State
State: Alaska
Program Description: The State of Alaska is using a public education program to reduce the threat of wildfire in urban interface areas. Alaska Department of Natural Resources coordinates with the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management for wildfire services and education. Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group provides information to state, municipal, borough, and federal agencies for distribution to communities and homeowners.

The Alaska Fire and Safety Network website maintains links to the Firewise Alaska Program and an explanation of fire triage, how firefighters decide whether a home can be saved in case of a wildfire.

The Fire Triage page, delivers a strong message to homeowners, "Your home's survival depends on you, not the fire department!" It explains how and why firefighters decide some homes can be defended, and others cannot. Homeowners are asked to see if their home is easy to find, if the driveway is easily accessible to firefighting equipment, if there are hazards such as low powerlines or above ground fuel tanks on the property, and if there is at least 30 feet of defensible space around the home to prevent the house from igniting from radiant heat.

The Firewise Alaska Community Action Program has produced a six part pamphlet series containing information on:

  1. Landscaping and Defensible Space,


  2. Access and Signs,


  3. Emergency Water Supply,


  4. Firewise Construction, Materials and Building Location,


  5. Home Planning, Fire Safety Inside Your Home,


  6. Threatened by Wildfire.

The defensible space section explains that from 30 to 100 feet of space containing fire-resistant plants should surround the home. Homeowners are encouraged to replace indigenous species with low-growing, green plants, with low resin or sap content, to space plants, and remove dead vegetation and debris from around the house. A checklist of tips, called "Protect Yourself From Wildfire" condenses the suggestions from the six pamphlet onto one easy to follow page. It instructs residents to maintain 30-feet of mowed and watered grass or other non-combustible material around the home, maintain a 100-foot fuel break on the downhill slopes near the home, remove lower branches from trees to a height of 10 feet, and selectively remove spruce trees so that limbs are not touching.

Alaska Firewise also publishes and distributes a Fire Risk Rating Guide for Homes in the Wildland/Urban Interface. The rating guide allows the homeowner to self-assess his hazard risk rating, and includes many suggestions for reducing one's risk. The rating guide covers all six of the risk areas included in the Firewise Community Action Program folder.

Firewise Alaska information is distributed by the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and State of Alaska through the fire departments in service areas. Representatives of the Firewise program also meet people and distribute information at home shows, sport and recreation shows, and other large public gatherings. Public service announcements on the radio during fire season remind residents that they need to prepare for wildfire before it strikes.

Contact Information

For more information, contact Sharon Roesch (between April and September) at (907) 260-4222 or, via email, at [email protected].
Sponsored by the USDA Forest Service / Southern Research Station
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