BEING FIREWISE
RESIDENTS REDUCING WILDFIRE RISK
Wildfires in Yavapai County are inevitable. Be prepared to safely coexist with wildfire. Understand the risk and take steps to: make your home safer for your family, protect your property, safeguard your property value, and create a sense of security.
Reduce the potential impact of a wildfire by BEING FIREWISE!
Being Ember Prepared
- Clean Your Yard and apply checklist
- Visual: Being Ember Prepared (house)
- Checklist: Being Ember Prepared Brochure
- Video: https://youtu.be/gAuhNDb963Y
Creating Defensible Space
- Apply principles of zone management around your home
- Visual: Creating Defensible Space (zones diagram)
- Checklist: Creating Defensible Space Brochure
- Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfbEcMeYFFA
Being Ready to Evacuate
- Prepare a “GO KIT” NOW and organize what to take
- Visual: Ready-Set-Go poster
- Checklist: Being Ready to Evacuate Brochure
- Yavapai Emergency Alert: https://member.everbridge.net/337829242601768/new
Being Engaged
- Participating in community/Yard Cleanup
- Take personal action to Be Ember Prepared and Create Defensible Space which reduces your homes vulnerability and makes your neighborhood safer.
- Submitting yard cards
- Engagement data is used for Firewise-USA recognition, which is necessary for Firewise mitigation grant reimbursement.
- Be a Firewise Friend and help make your neighborhood safer
- Distribute 8 yard cards in your neighborhood.
- Learning about Being Firewise
- Wilfire Community Preparedness Day, Firewise Facts/Tips, Etc.
StoneRidge Firewise Committee:
Vision: ‘Being Firewise’
Mission: To provide leadership toward ‘Being Firewise’ and engaging residents in wildfire risk reduction and improving neighborhood safety. As well as being recognized as a community with knowledgeable and active residents.
Goals:
- Maintaining Firewise-USA recognition through resident engagement
- Encouraging residents toward ‘Being Firewise’ through education, events, and engagement
- Facilitating the StoneRidge Community moving toward ‘Being Firewise’ through mitigation and maintenance
- Advocating for wildfire risk reduction beyond StoneRidge and creating Defensible Space through Zone Management