Reposted from EMR-ISAC

The threat of wildfires in the wildland urban interface (WUI) is a subject of increasing national concern. Creating fire-adapted communities remains a key priority of national fire safety, prevention, and control policy in the United States. To support local fire departments and their communities in this charge, the U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) recently launched two new WUI fire awareness tools: 

• The WUI Fire Property Awareness Explorer. This application allows users to search addresses or communities to gain a contextual understanding of their area relative to the WUI and vegetative fuels.
• The WUI Fire Community Awareness Explorer. This dashboard provides a quick snapshot of counties or places in the U.S. and potential exposure to wildfire hazards for structures in the WUI. Users interested in building fire-adapted communities and resilience can quickly identify vulnerable structures or areas in their own community. These tools do not measure or convey risk. Rather, they are designed to provide awareness about the location of the WUI and local wildfire hazard exposure. The tools can support local fire departments and community stakeholders to apply consistent data in the implementation of community risk reduction, code adoption and enforcement, mitigation, and planning efforts.

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