Community Wildfire Protection

Community Wildfire Protection Plans, or CWPPs, are a crucial planning document to prepare communities for wildfire. All CWPPs for the state can be found here. 
Creating and regularly updating a CWPP allows a community to:

1. Influence how land is managed on federal and state lands for wildfire risk reduction,
2. Identify and map wildfire hazards,
3. Identify effective wildfire risk mitigation strategies, and
4. Be eligible for certain nationally competitive grants.

Is your CWPP up to date? Was your CWPP collaboratively developed? Is the action plan being implemented? Is success being tracked? For a truly wildfire-resilient community, the answer to all these questions should be “yes.” If you answered no to anything above, consider updating your county CWPP. You may be eligible to apply for funding to support the update process. To learn more about this process, check out our CWPP Update Guidebook and reach out to julia.berkey@mt.gov