Strengthening Fire Resilience Through CWPPs: Tools, Stories, and Community Learning
Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) play a critical role in building wildfire resilience across landscapes and neighborhoods. These collaborative planning efforts help communities identify wildfire risk, center local priorities, and…
Invest in People and Community Resilience Will Follow
Editor’s note: The Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC) is FAC Net’s backbone organization. In this blog, WRTC staff highlight outcomes from a pilot round of subawards to Prescribed Burn…
Community Outreach Resources from the Fire Networks Blog
Outreach is at the heart of community wildfire resilience. From shaping public conversations to building lasting relationships, community engagement is what turns good ideas into widespread action. Over the years,…
2025 Fire Networks Impact Report
Blog cover photo: Jade Elhardt. This week, the Fire Networks are proud to release our 2025 Impact Report. Over the past year, the Fire Networks were able to make remarkable…
A Year of Rebuilding and Reflection Since the 2025 LA Fires
In the winter of 2025, a year ago this week, the Los Angeles area experienced a cascade of fires — among them the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire —…
What We’re Reading This Week
The discourse on wildfire resilience is textured and varied – with new research publications, articles, StoryMaps, white papers, and more introduced each week. Today, we’re sharing a sample of some…
Ten Years of Fire Adaptation Work in Lake County: An Interview with Magdalena Valderrama
Editor’s note: In this blog, we sit down with longtime FAC Net member Magdalena Valderrama to discuss how her community and her fire adaptation work have changed in the decade…
School’s in Session! Fire Education Resources for Youth
It’s after Labor Day, and schools around the country are reconvening for the start of the school year. Many classrooms will be incorporating lessons about fire, what with different fire…
New Resources Available Now for Supporting Smoke Ready Communities
The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network is excited to release the newly developed smoke ready communities graphics and companion materials! These graphics were developed in the spring of 2025 in…