| SOLUTIONS Wildfire
Management
Forestry & Ecosystem
Management
Utilities & Engineering |
Recognizing the need to supplement our robust landscape
scale Regional Wildfire Risk Assessment methods, Sanborn
has joined forces with local fire planning experts,
such as Anchor
Point Group (Boulder, Colorado), to provide community
scale hazard assessment and fire plan development services.
Together, Sanborn and our local fire planning partners
offer a comprehensive methodology for cost-effectively
conducting community scale risk assessments, and developing
Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP).
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION
PLANNING
We offer a comprehensive methodology for cost-effectively
conducting hazard assessments, risk analysis, and developing
community-based fire mitigation plans compliant with
the U.S. 2003 Healthy Forests Restoration Act’s
“Community Wildfire Protection Plan” (CWPP)
methodology.
When combined with scientific fire-behavior modeling,
the community assessment provides fire planners with
the information necessary to determine mitigation projects.
The data is used to identify and prioritize landscape-
and community-level mitigation projects. These results,
recommendations and implementation plans are developed
as Community Wildfire Protection Plans, Operational
Pre-Attack Plans, and Annual Workplans.
MITIGATION PLAN DEVELOPMENT
Using the results obtained from the community scale
assessment and risk analysis, a series of mitigation
plans can be developd to support fire planning, hazardous
fuels reduction, other mitigation activities, and fire
incident response requirements. The fire plans not only
provide the baseline for preparedness planning, but
also provide necessary information for operational firefighters
during fire incident response and suppression efforts.
Knowing what areas are most prone, and where infrastructure
is located, is critical for effective response.
DISTRIBUTING ASSESSMENT AND
FIRE PLAN RESULTS
Fire management and mitigation activities are often
spread across several organizations, each with different
jurisdictional responsibility. The ability to collaborate
and share data and results of the assessment and risk
analysis with other local fire agencies, State and Federal
fire agencies, and especially the public, is key to
the CWPP process.
While personalized public meetings are essential, and
hardcopy brochures are an option, desktop GIS applications
and Internet web sites are ideal for educating and communicating
wildland fire risk concerns to the public.
Providing the Assessment
Results and Fire Plans in a GEOBOOK®
To aid in delivery and distribution of the CWPP and
fire plans to interested parties on their desktop, the
results can be encapsulated into Sanborn’s GEOBOOK
map book product. The GEOBOOK is an intuitive GIS application
that is provided in an easy-to-use digital book format.
Information is organized as a series of chapters and
pages mimicking a hardcopy book.
The GEOBOOK provides a comfortable and intuitive mechanism
for non-GIS audiences, like local fire fighters and
the public, to access the power of GIS data within the
context of a scientifically-based and sound fire plan.
A CWPP GEOBOOK also typically includes photographs,
descriptions, local fire policies, key contacts and
even individual home assessment information.
You can obtain more information about the GEOBOOK by
visiting the Sanborn
GEOBOOK web page. | Regional
Fire Risk Assesment Community
Hazard Risk & Assessment Wildfire
Risk Information 
Community Risk Mapping
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Fuels Model Mapping
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Community Risk Ratings
CWPP GEOBOOK®
GEOBOOK Interactive Map
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