Living with Wildfire:
Community Preparedness Resources + Events

Mike Chard, Boulder Office of Emergency Management, speaks to the group in Melody Park on July 9, 2022.

 

First, the BWC team would like to THANK YOU for your commitment to learning more about wildfire preparation strategies you and your neighbors can take on for greater resiliency! We have had strong turnouts to our events centered around learning about alerts and warnings, grab lists, evacuation routes, Detailed Home Assessments, firewise landscaping solutions, and insurance policy/industry updates. Unfold the Community Preparedness Event Offering menu below to see a full list of topics. If this event is something your neighborhood or community would like to plan with us, let’s connect and get it on the calendar!

Below you’ll find an abundance of resources, guides, links, and actions shared during these events. Engage your personal network as well and send these out far and wide. By sharing these tips with neighbors and working collectively, you can better protect your whole neighborhood and community!

If you have any questions or requests for additional information, please contact Kirin Riddell at kirin@boulderwatershedcollective.org.

  • Emergency preparedness workshops
    ● Go-bags/general evac plans
    ● Emergency communication systems—workshop to get people signed up for alerts
    ● Animal evacuations
    ● Smoke readiness workshop
    ● Neighborhood ambassador development
    ● Insurance preparedness presentations

    Home hardening/defensible space
    ● Mitigation best practices workshop or tour
    ● Juniper removal
    ● Residential fuels removal–work party or dumpster day
    ● Fire resilient landscaping workshop or demonstration
    ● Home assessment demos
    ● “Mitigation Open House” where community members visit different stations to learn “how to safely and effectively mitigate wildfire risk on their property”
    ● Firewise landscaping workshops
    ● Demonstration landscaping: mobilize volunteers to work on mitigation for a common community building/property

    Wildfire science workshop/education
    ● General for adults
    ● General for youth
    ● Forest/grassland for Open Space-adjacent communities

    Community Organizing
    ● Information-sharing via mailers or email lists
    ● Leveraging contractor work across neighborhoods for small-scale mitigation projects
    ● Supporting, Developing, and Managing Grant-Funded Projects with Community Collaboration

If you know someone interested in hosting an event in their neighborhood, please pass along our website and Kirin’s email address.