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OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN. COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN. The Dona Ana Community County Wildfire Protection Plan (DACCWPP) was created to protect human life while also reducing property damage as a result of wildfires.

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OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT

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  1. OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN

  2. COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN • The Dona Ana Community County Wildfire Protection Plan (DACCWPP) was created to protect human life while also reducing property damage as a result of wildfires. • The plan provides background information, a risk assessment and recommendations for the county.

  3. HEALTHY FORESTSRESTORATION ACT • Having been developed collaboratively by multiple agencies at the state and local levels in consultation with federal agencies and other interested parties. • Prioritizing and identifying fuel reduction treatments and recommending the types and methods of treatments to protect at-risk communities and pertinent infrastructure. • Suggesting multi-party mitigation, monitoring, and outreach • Recommending measures and action items that residents and communities can take to reduce the ignitability of structures • Facilitating public information meetings to educate and involve the community to participate in and contribute to the development of the DACCWPP.

  4. COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN • The CWPP acknowledges the tireless efforts of both the career and volunteer firefighters but emphasizes a need for Dona Ana County residents to take preventative measures of their own.

  5. WILDFIRES Wildfire – a rapidly spreading fire usually occurring in an extended dry, hot season, aided by an abundance of fire fuel and some form of fire igniter.

  6. WILDFIRE STATS • Over the last 10 years there has • been between30,000 • And 100,000 wildfires a year. • In 2011 wildfires estimated • to have cause over $150 billion • worth of damage. • Most structures damaged during a wildfire include residences and outbuildings although major infrastructure such as bridges are susceptible to fire damage.

  7. WILDFIRE STATS New Mexico averages more fires per year than the nations average.

  8. TYPES OF FIRE SPREAD • Crown Fire Surface Fire Spotting

  9. CAUSES OF WILDFIRES • Lightning • Human Carelessness • Slash and Burn Farming • Volcanic Activity • Underground Coal Fires

  10. HUMAN CARELESSNESS • Human Carelessness – Occurs when fires are man-made and not monitored or controlled as they ought to be.

  11. VOLCANIC ACTIVITY • Volcanic Activity – Volcanoes can release pyroclastic clouds.

  12. WILDFIRE RISK FACTORS • Fire Fuel • Topography • Weather • Infrastructure

  13. FIRE FUEL • Anything that once a fire has ignited via our aforementioned causes permits the fire to use as an energy source. • For wildfire this tends to be forest and agriculture biomass such as pine needles, tumbleweeds, saltcedar, leaves, tree branches etc.

  14. FIRE FUEL • The type and amount of fire fuel not only determines the intensity of the fire but also the amount it spreads. Small fire fuel Large fire fuel

  15. TOPOGRAPHY • Wildfires tend not to burn downhill so much as they burn up hill, they follow the ambient wind which runs up slope

  16. WEATHER • Areas that experience drought and winds (such as New Mexico) are favorable locations for wildfires. Droughts Wind

  17. INFRASTRUCTURE • Infrastructure built close by forests, mountain sides, farm lots or derelict lots have a greater risk of wildfires due to the abundance of fire fuel found at such locations. • Infrastructure built of lumbar and fiberboard, are not as resilient towards wildfires as building made from brick and slate.

  18. RISK ASSESSMENT MODEL • Risk Assessment Model (RAM) is a tool used to evaluate the risk of wildfires within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas of Dona Ana County • Assesses Wildfire on two notions: Hazard and Risk

  19. HAZARD • Hazard – determines the threat of a wildfire based on fire fuel and its ability to ignite in regards to its condition, arrangement, location and volume • NFPA Rating

  20. RISK • Risk – determines the threat of a wildfire based upon the possibility of ignition via the presence and activity of causative agents. • Further broken down into two assessments. 1.Composite Risk/Hazard Assessment • 2.Community Risk/Hazard Assessment • GIS Risk Assessment Rating

  21. COMPOSITE RISK/HAZARD ASSESSMENT • Dona Ana ranges from low risk to extreme risk. • Low risk areas include remote desert areas of the county such as Chaparral • High/extreme risk areas include Organ Mountain and communities around the Rio Grande.

  22. COMPOSITE RISK/HAZARD ASSESSMENT

  23. COMMUNITY RISK/HAZARD ASSESSMENTS • Assesses the hazard/risk levels of communities that fall within the WUI in Dona Ana County using the NFPA Standard for Reducing Structure Ignition Hazards from Wildland Fire. • Dona Ana County divide into 13 sections for evaluation

  24. DONA ANA COUNTY • NFPA Rating : 54/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  25. CHAPARRAL • NFPA Rating : 66/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  26. DRIPPING SPRINGS • GIS Risk Assessment Rating: Moderate-High

  27. FAIRACRES • NFPA rating: 95/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate – High

  28. GARFIELD • NFPA Rating : 68/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Low-High

  29. HATCH • NFPA Rating : 60/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Low-Moderate

  30. HIGHWAY 185 • NFPA Rating : 102/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  31. LAS ALTURAS (TALAVERA) • NFPA Rating : 74/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : High-Extreme

  32. MESILLA • NFPA Rating : 71/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  33. ORGAN • NFPA Rating : 101/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  34. RADIUM SPRINGS • NFPA Rating : 76/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Moderate-High

  35. RINCON • NFPA Rating : 82/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Low-High

  36. VADO AND LA MESA • NFPA Rating : 65/112 • GIS Risk Assessment Rating : Low-Moderate

  37. WHAT CAN BE DONE? Individual Level • Encourage your community to become a FirewiseCommunity • Remove and properly dispose of any fire fuel • Ensure residences have defensible space around them • Ensure access to infrastructure for emergency vehicles • Participate/create Fire Prevention Week activities in October focused around Wildfires

  38. DEFENSIBLE SPACE • Picture from firewise

  39. WHAT CAN BE DONE? Dona Ana • Place signs with fire warning levels around the county • Create volunteer groups assigned to the management of fire fuel and the up keep of derelict lots • Provide educational programs for residents of Dona Ana County • Encourage the use of non-flammable materials in construction projects

  40. OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT • Utilize grant money to create educational outreach programs, informational flyers and literature • Advertise and create more exposure towards Wildfires throughout the county

  41. RECOMMENDATIONS • Encourage and increase defensible space around infrastructure • Maintain and keep yards clean • Mow along highways to reduce fire fuel • Management of non-native plants such as saltcedar • Maintain bosque thinning • Creation of fuel/fire breaks

  42. MONITORING AND IMPLEMENTATION • BOCC adoption • State Forestry adoption • Creation of working group

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