Lake County Receives Wildfire Preparation Funds

FEMA released $511,153 in Hazard Mitigation Grant Program funds to Lake County, Minnesota, for the installation of fire-resistant roofing materials on 65 residential and commercial structures

Lake County Gets Grant to Help with Future Forest Fires

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Colorado Homeowners Get Wildfire Pointers

Pike's Pike Wildfire Prevention Partners held a full-day prevention workshop to educate Colorado homeowners on the finer points of wildfires

Wildfire education series continues Friday

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Oakland Hills Residents Worry About Wildfires

Residents of California's Oakland Hills fear that, with the demise of the Wildfire Prevention Assessment District, wildfires could become an even greater danger

Piedmonter/Montclarion letters: Prevention key to firefighting

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California City Offers Free Chipping Service To Reduce Wildfire Fuel

To encourage people in high fire hazard areas to clear brush around their homes before the wildfire season begins, Hayward, California, is providing a free chipping service

Hayward to provide free chipping to reduce wildfire risk

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Oklahoma Homeowners Advised To Prepare For Wildfires

The Payne County Emergency Management Director provided some tips to Oklahoma homeowners as warming temperatures increased the risk of wildfires

Q5: Spring increases risk of wildfires

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Butte County Community Earns Firewise Award

Butte County Fire Safe Council issued a press release announcing that Forbestown, California, has earned a Firewise Communities award for its efforts to reduce its vulnerability to wildfires

Forbestown gets award for wildfire preparedness

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Colorado Insurance Policies Double Due To Wildfires

Colorado homeowners have seen their insurance premiums double or policies cancelled altogether due, in part, to wildfire activity over the past few years

Colorado disasters lead to home insurance spikes, cancellations

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Firewise of Southwest Colorado Wins Award For Wildfire Preparations

Firewise of Southwest Colorado and the Falls Creek Ranch subdivision have won national recognition for their work in wildfire preparedness and mitigation

Wildfire preparedness, mitigation efforts honored

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Oregon Homeowners Get Wildfire Tips From DFPA

The Douglas Forest Protective Association says now is the time Oregon homeowners should start cleaning up the trees and brush around their homes

Spring cleaning protects homes from wildfire

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Meetings Scheduled To Discuss Kauai CWPP Next Week

Meetings are planned next week to discuss Hawaii's Kauai Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Input sought for wildfire protection plans

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Colorado Homeowners To Discuss Wildfire Preparations

Pitkin County, Colorado's, wildfire council will hold a meeting next Wednesday to educate homeowners on steps they can take to protect their property from wildfire

PitCo forming wildfire council

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Pennsylvania Governor Wolf Declares March 15-21 Wildfire Prevention Week

Pennsylvania's governor declared Wildfire Prevention Week while warning that winds and warming temperatures can combine to elevate the fire danger across the state's forests and wildlands

Pennsylvania Governor Wolf Declares March 15-21 Wildfire Prevention Week

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Crestbrook Insurance Company Unveils New Wildfire Protection Program

Crestbrook Insurance Company announced the launch of a program in collaboration with Wildfire Defense Systems that aims to better protect homes in several Western states from wildfires

Crestbrook Insurance® Introduces Wildfire Solutions Program

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CoreLogic Identifies Helena, Montana, Homes At Risk From Wildfires

CoreLogic's latest report indicated that nearly 3,000 homes in the Helena area are at high risk from wildfires with total rebuilding costs estimated to be nearly $750 million

Helena homes in danger: Report says nearly 3,000 residences at high risk for wildfire

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Grant County, WA, Preparing CWPP

Public comments on a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Grant County, Washington, will be accepted at a meeting on March 19th in Moses Lake

Comments sought, information offered on wildfire protection plan

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Arizona Homeowners Get Wildfire Tips

Homeowners in Arizona's White Mountains were given some pointers on how to prepare their homes for wildfires

How to make your home defensible from wildfire

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Tucson Homeowners Warned About Wildfire Danger

Homeowners in Tucson, Arizona, were warned that dry fuel conditions increased the wildfire danger

Wild grasses pose Tucson-area wildfire threat

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FireFree Event Shows Oregonians How To Prepare For Wildfires

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Alison Green, the Program Coordinator for Project Wildfire, sent along a press release for their upcoming spring FireFree event in Central Oregon

Spring FireFree

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Mesa County, Colorado, Applying For Wildfire Grant

Mesa County Emergency Management has applied for a $57,000 grant to pay for fuel reduction around Glade Park, Colorado

Grant allows for wildfire mitigation on Glade Park

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Over 2,300 Portland, Oregon, Homes At Risk From Wildfires

Over 2,300 homes in Oregon's Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro area are at risk from wildfires, with rebuilding costs estimated to be $2.3 billion

Thousands of Portland-area homes face wildfire risk

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Nearly 1,500 Humboldt County Homes At Risk From Wildfires

This week's CoreLogic report showed that nearly 1,500 homes in Humboldt County, California, were at risk from wildfires

Report: 1,450 Humboldt homes at high or very wildfire risk

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Hawaii Prepares CWPPs for Maui Neighborhoods

Community Wildfire Protection Plans for Upcountry/Central Maui and South Maui will be discussed at a series of meetings

Community Meetings Scheduled to Gather Input for Wildfire Protection Plans

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30,000 Northern California Homes At Risk From Wildfires

Nearly 30,000 homes were identified as at risk in California's San Francisco and Marin counties by the latest CoreLogic report

Wildfires pose big risk to many Marin homes, report finds

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Wildfire Preparedness Meeting To Be Held In Helena, Montana

The Natural Resources Conservation Service and the USFS will host a pair of meetings in Helena, Montana, to help homeowners learn more about what they can do to better prepare for wildfires

Officials hosting Montana wildfire mitigation meetings

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Arizona Homeowners Get Wildfire Tips

Officials from Arizona's Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests provided some tips to homeowners in the White Mountains on preventing wildfires

Prevent wildfires by properly disposing of hot ashes

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West Virginia Division Of Forestry Offers Wildfire Tips

The West Virginia Division of Forestry provided tips to homeowners on how to protect their property from wildfires on the eve of the spring forest fire season

Spring Forest Fire Season Starts Sunday

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