There’s no single way to live better with fire—there are many.
With support from the Resources Legacy Fund, the Fire Networks and The Nature Conservancy worked with people in Northern California, Greater Yellowstone and the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains to tell stories of some of these paths. While rooted in community and place, these stories show a better future with fire relies on all of us.
Explore, share, inspire. Together, we can rewrite the story of fire.
To learn more about this work, fire in your place, available resources, or how you can help, please write to us.
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MANY PATHS
This map identifies landscapes where fires happened frequently before European colonization, i.e., those vegetation systems with a native fire return interval of 35 years or less based on current vegetation type and estimated pre-European colonization fire return interval. Learn more.
Frequent fire landscapes. Map: LANDFIRE