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Title: Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan


1
Josephine County Integrated Fire Plan
  • Background
  • Collaboration
  • Plan Goals
  • Risk Assessment
  • Fuels Reduction Priorities
  • Community Fuels Reduction Projects

Photo courtesy of the Grants Pass Daily Courier
2
Background
  • 2002 Biscuit Fire
  • Need for multi agency coordination
  • August 2003
  • County initiative to develop the plan
  • Multi Objective Planning Goals
  • National Fire Plan
  • Federal Emergency Management Agency Pre-Disaster
    Mitigation Program
  • Healthy Forest Restoration Act

3
JCIFP Organizational Chart
Josephine County Board of Commissioners
Rogue Valley Fire Chiefs Association/ Rogue
Valley Fire Prevention Co-op
Josephine County Fire Defense Board
Josephine County Emergency Management Board
Josephine County Risk Assessment/ Fuels Reduction
Committee
Josephine County Special Needs Committee
JCIFP Education and Outreach Committee
JCIFP Stewardship Contracting Committee
4
Collaboration
  • County Fire Agencies
  • Grants Pass, Illinois Valley, Applegate,
    Williams, Wolf Creek, Rural/Metro
  • County Departments
  • GIS, Planning, Emergency Management, Community
    Development, Forestry, Public Works
  • Forest Service
  • Bureau of Land Management
  • Oregon Department of Forestry
  • Oregon Department of Transportation
  • Applegate Partnership
  • Illinois Valley Community Development
    Organization
  • Siskiyou Field Institute
  • Sunny Wolf Community Response Team
  • Lomakatsi Restoration Group
  • Forestry Action Committee
  • The Nature Conservancy
  • Josephine County RCD
  • Josephine County Soil and Water Conservation
    District
  • Middle Rogue Watershed Council

5
Plan Goals
  • Landscape treatment
  • Coordinate defensible space and fuels reduction
    projects on public and private land
  • Increase access to fuels reduction resources

Photo by Neil Benson, Josephine County Integrated
Fire Plan
6
Plan Goals
  • Help citizens be active participants in
    protecting homes, communities and quality of life
  • Changing the culture in a fire-prone environment

Photos by Neil Benson, JCIFP
7
Plan Goals
  • Build capacity of all fire protection districts
  • Re-connect public education with fire services
  • Explore new horizons
  • Stewardship contracting
  • Biomass utilization

Image Courtesy of the Grants PassDaily Courier
8
Risk Assessment
  • Josephine County State Pilot
  • National Association of State Foresters Guidance
  • Risk
  • Fire Occurrence
  • Hazard
  • Vegetation, Weather, Topography
  • Values
  • Residential Density
  • Protection Capability
  • Fire Dept. Response Time
  • Structural Vulnerability
  • Access, Roof Type and Defensible Space

9
Identifying High Risk Areas
  • Strategic Planning Units
  • Highest risk areas on public private land
  • Uses 6th field watersheds
  • Fire District Review
  • Invited all fire districts to participate in a
    review of the risk assessment and ground truth
    findings

10
Identifying priorities for treatment private
land
  • Review Criteria for Site Selection
  • Risk Assessment (5 layers)
  • Past, current, and future fuels projects (state,
    federal and county)
  • Community input from meetings
  • Fire District input

11
Identifying priorities for treatment public land
  • BLM adopted risk assessment in developing
    priorities for the resource management plan
  • County implementing projects adjacent to NFP
    Projects
  • Lake Selmac
  • Wolf Creek

12
Community Fuels Reduction Projects
  • Action planning worksheet
  • Thompson Creek Neighborhood Fuels Reduction
    project
  • 2005 National Fire Plan projects
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