El Dorado County Fire Safe Council | Firesafe Board | Wildlife Protection Plan

TABLE OF CONTENTS EL DORADO COUNTY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN
• Plan Index Page	I. Executive Summary	II. Background
III. Introduction	IV. Purpose and Scope	V. Problems and Issues
VI. Goals of the EDCWPP	VII. Strategic Action Plan Recommendations	VIII. Communities with Fire Safe Plans (CWPP)
IX. Communities with Fire Safe Councils	X. Guidelines for Listing Existing CAR and Rural Centers for CWPP Preparation	XI. Listing of Market Areas, Community Regions, Rural Centers, Rural Regions, and CAR from the Federal Register
XII. Process for Selecting Communities for a Community Action Plan (CAP), CWPP Preparation, and Other Fire Safe Project Funding	XIII. Standard Outline and Checklist for CWPPs	XIV. Plan Updates

V. Problems and Issues

The combination of past uses and recent development has resulted in a dramatic change in fire regimes in the county. What was once was a frequent, low intensity fire regime has become an infrequent high intensity fire regime. Most fires are extinguished at small acreages because of aggressive fire suppression. Occasionally, however, drier windier conditions coupled with the altered fuel conditions result in large, damaging wildfires. These conditions, coupled with the resident population in fire prone areas and lack of fire plan funding, will likely result in large structure losses and possibly loss of life.

Rural Centers are often poorly accessed with narrow, dead end roads with inadequate vegetative clearance along the roads.
There is inadequate attention to Fire Safe building codes.
Key county watersheds do not have necessary fuel treatment to protect them from catastrophic, high intensity fires.
Fuel reduction work must be maintained due to aggressive vegetation growth in most of the County.
There is no standard format for defining CAR.
CAR are not prioritized as to Values at Risk.
Many communities do not have Evacuation Plans.
Biomass removal is not yet economical for most locations.

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