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Mitigation Best Practices Table 21-8. Alternatives to Mitigate the Wildfire Hazard Personal-Scale Corporate-Scale Government-Scale  Manipulate the hazard:  Clear potential fuels on property such as dry overgrown underbrush and diseased trees  Reduce exposure:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures  Locate outside of hazard area  Mow regularly  Reduce vulnerability:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures and provide water on site  Use fire-resistant building materials  Create defensible spaces around home  Build local capacity:  Employ techniques from the National Fire Protection Association’s Firewise USA program to safeguard home  Identify alternative water supplies for fire fighting  Install/replace roofing material with non- combustible roofing materials and implement other strategies to harden homes from embers and flame impingement  Manipulate the hazard:  Clear potential fuels on property such as dry underbrush and diseased trees  Reduce exposure:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures and infrastructure  Locate outside of hazard area  Reduce vulnerability:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures and infrastructure and provide water on site  Use fire-resistant building materials  Use fire-resistant plantings in buffer areas of high wildfire threat.  Build local capacity:  Support Firewise USA community initiatives.  Create /establish stored water supplies to be utilized for firefighting.  Manipulate the hazard:  Clear potential fuels on property such as dry underbrush and diseased trees  Implement best management practices on public lands  Reduce exposure:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures and infrastructure  Locate outside of hazard area  Enhance building code to include use of fire resistant materials in high hazard area.  Reduce vulnerability:  Create and maintain defensible space around structures and infrastructure  Use fire-resistant building materials  Use fire-resistant plantings in buffer areas of high wildfire threat.  Consider higher regulatory standards (such as Class A roofing)  Establish biomass reclamation initiatives  Reintroduce fire (controlled or prescribed burns) to fire-prone ecosystems  Manage fuel load through thinning and brush removal  Establish integrated performance standards for new development to harden homes.  Build local capacity:  More public outreach and education efforts, including an active Firewise USA program  Possible weapons of mass destruction funds available to enhance fire capability in high-risk areas  Identify fire response and alternative evacuation routes and establish where needed  Seek alternative water supplies  Become a Firewise USA community  Use academia to study impacts/solutions to wildfire risk  Establish/maintain mutual aid agreements between fire service agencies  Develop, adopt, and implement integrated plans for mitigating wildfire impacts in wildland areas bordering on development  Consider the probable impacts of climate change on the risk associated with the wildfire hazard in future land use decisions  Establish a management program to track forest and rangeland health  Provide incentives to for existing structures to be hardened against wildfire. 21-9