Publications: Firewise Tips, Maps, Programs and Reports

Firewise Tips

• Backyard Wildlife Habitat and Fire Safety (PDF) - How to design your backyard to promote wildlife habitat, reduce water use and minimize wildfire risk.
• Becoming a FireWise Community (PDF) - How your neighborhood can become a recognized FireWise Community.
• Before You Build (PDF) - Firewise requirements for new construction in the Flagstaff Area.
• Dollars and Sense (PDF) - Thinning trees not only reduces wildfire risk, but improves property value!
• Fire Resistant Landscaping for the Flagstaff Area (PDF) - Provides guidelines on selection, location, and maintenance of plants.
• Firewise (PDF) - How to make your home and neighborhood Firewise.
• Firewise Mulch (PDF) - Fire resistance properties of various mulch materials.
• Firewise Plants (PDF) - List of FireWise plant recommendations for 3,000' and up.
• Homeowner Action Plan (PDF) - Recommended risk-reduction actions for homeowners.
• Slash Pile Guidelines (PDF) - Lists requirements for constructing burn piles.
• Vendor List March 2019 (PDF)- Partial list of vendors who provide tree and forest treatment services in the greater Flagstaff area. Individuals listed have attended one or more past workshops hosted by the Flagstaff Fire.

Maps

• #1 Community (PDF) - Depicts the highest wildfire threat areas in Arizona.
• Arizona Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal
• City-Wide Neighborhood Wildfire Threat Assessment Map (PDF) - Based upon factors that influence wildfire threat: vegetation density, access, water sources, slope, recently completed forest treatments, and home construction features: Low (Blue), Moderate (Green), High (Yellow), Extreme (Red).
• Greater Flagstaff Forest Partnership Treatment Map
• Neighborhood Wildfire Threat Assessment Rankings (PDF) -A list of neighborhoods and their wildfire threat rankings as determined in the City-Wide Wildfire Threat Assessment
• WUI Map (PDF) - Map illustrating Flagstaff's WUI in relation to the WUI-IFC Code

Programs

• "Bark Beetles" (PDF) - 2002 infestation and treatment options.
• "Briefing - Primary" (PDF) - Overview of the Dept's Wildland Fire Management program.
• "Council - County Overview - 4FRI" (PDF) - 2010 Overview of Four Forests Restoration Initiative.
• "Firewise Construction" (PDF) - Techniques to build a Firewise home.
• "Firewise Preparedness" (PDF) - Steps to take to reduce fire risk in, and around your home.
• "WUI - Orientation" (PDF) - Overview of the City's Wildland Urban Interface Code.

Reports

• "Airport Zone Snapshot" (PDF) - Summary of collaborative approach to planning and implementing the City's Airport project.
• "American Planning Association PSA" (PDF) - Article detailing the FFD approach to community protection from the context of urban forestry.
• "Auto Tour Handout." (PDF) - This self guided auto-tour explores forest treatments on the west side of Flagstaff. The treatments are part of a collaborative effort among many agencies, organizations, and other interested parties to restore our forests to a healthy and sustainable condition, and reduce the threat of destructive wildfire.
• "Biomass Briefing" (PDF) - Report on planning and outcome of City of Flagstaff biomass recovery initiative.
• "City Well Field Project Briefing." (PDF) - Summary of the objectives, and procedures use in treatment of the City Well Field project.
• "Code Adoption - Avoid the Agony" (PDF) - Outlines the City's approach to adoption of the Wildland Urban Interface code.
• "FFD Deck Tests" (PDF) - Article on ad-hoc testing (process and outcomes) of composite building material.
• "FFD Prescribed Fire Emissions" (PDF) - Summarizes differences in smoke emissions between prescribed fire and wildfire.
• "FFD WUI Code Adoption" (PDF) - Article on the method utilized, and the results, durring the City of Flagstaff adoption process.
• "Fighting Fire with Fire." (PDF) - Since 1996, the Flagstaff Fire Department has been successfully engaged in this activity in an urban setting.
• "Flagstaff Interface Treatment Prescription" (PDF) - Details the approach utilized by Flagstaff-area fire managers to reduce the threat of wildfire.
• "Flagstaff Pulliam Airport Fuels Reduction Project" (PDF) - Report detailing the purpose, process, and outcomes of this collaborative treatment project.
• "Forest Stewardship Plan." (PDF) - City wide plan discussing current conditions, desired future conditions and forest treatment activities to reduce wildfire risk and promote forest health.
• "Hazard Fuels Mitigation Guidelines." (PDF) - Explains FFD's Hazardous Fuels Mitigation Procedure.
• "It Works" (PDF) - Documents the 2006 Woody Fire and the 2010 Hardy Fire and the effects forest treatments had in reducing damage and permitting effective fire suppression operations to occur.
• "Living with Wildfire in Arizona." (PDF) - This document provides ecological, wildfire behavior and wildfire prevention/preparedness information for each of Arizona's six major fuel types. It is to be used as a reference for natural resource and fire managers, fire departments and the public.
• "Observatory Mesa Forest Stewardship Plan" (PDF) - This plan discusses current conditions of Observatory Mesa's forest, desired future conditions and treatments to promote reduction of wildfire risk and promoting forest health.
• "Rx Fire and Smoke" (PDF) - Find out what fire managers do to reduce smoke and how to reduce your own smoke exposure.
• "Schultz Fire Assessment" (PDF) - Review of Schultz Fire (June 2010) and impact to the City's water pipeline.
• "Surviving a Wildfire in Arizona" (PDF) - Learn to Understand, prepare for and prevent wildfires.
• "Tornado Damage Assessment" (PDF) - Review of October 6, 2010 tornado storm in the Flagstaff area.
• "The Wildland Urban Interface: What's Really At Risk?" (PDF) - A new definition of interface is required, along with a commitment to protect community values-at-risk.
• "Wildland Fire Management Program." - Protecting Community Values-At-Risk. (PDF)