Asotin County CWPP

Collaboration is an essential part of CWPPs. Community engagement, partner commitment, and follow-through are what make a CWPP successful and effective. Community members, land managers, and other partners from across the landscape helped develop this CWPP for Asotin County. Community engagement included an in-person kickoff meeting in April 2024 at the Asotin County Fair, a survey distributed to the community to understand knowledge and concerns about living in an area prone to wildfires, presence at community events like farmer’s markets and 4 ^th  of July fireworks stands, a virtual meeting with key partners to identify priority projects, and final in-person community meeting to present the results and recommendations from the CWPP process.

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While we live in a wildfire prone ecosystem, fortunately, there are many ways to make our communities more fire adapted, and thus more likely to survive a wildfire. A CWPP addresses a wide variety of issues such as wildfire response, hazard mitigation, community preparedness, evacuation planning, natural resource conservation, and post fire preplanning. This CWPP outlines the current risks that the community faces and highlights the highest priority actions for people to take to reduce that risk. The CWPP is developed through a collaborative framework and agreed to by residents, state and local government, local fire districts, and other stakeholders. Our CWPP will document the risk of every community in Asotin County with well researched, step-by-step recommendations, and prioritization of mitigation measures across the landscape to help protect our community. 

Our community's current CWPP was completed in 2008 and is now outdated. A lot has changed in the last 15 years. We've seen a lot of development, advances in firefighting science, and changing environmental impacts from climate change. Wildfire is now a much higher risk in our County and the mountains that surround it. Also, communities with a current CWPP can qualify for application for numerous federal, state, and local grants to implement the fire mitigationrecommendations stated in their CWPP.   Click here to learn more about CWPPs in Washington. 

The 2025 CWPP was developed by a Core Team and   The Ember Alliance  , a Colorado-based non-profit dedicated to restoring the relationship between communities and fire on the landscape. Special thanks to our Core Team members:

• Alison Martin - Forest Resilience Coordinator, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Andrew Naughton - Blue Mountain Unit Service Forester, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Austin Summers - Assistant Fire Unit Manager, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Bob Bell - Private Citizen
• Brad Forgey - Fire Commissioner, Blue Mountain Fire District 1
• Charlie Landsman - Community Resilience Coordinator, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Jennifer Zipse - District Assistant & Outreach Coordinator, Asotin County Conservation District
• Jason Hoerner - Blue Mountain Fire Management Officer, Washington Department of Natural Resources
• Joseph Sciarrino - North Zone Fuels Specialist, U.S. Forest Service
• Karst Riggers - Asotin County Fire Marshal
• Lacy Ausman-Ditto - Forestry Program Coordinator, Asotin County Conservation District
• Noel Hardin - Fire Chief, Asotin County Fire District #1
• Nick Bacon - Asotin County Department of Emergency Management Director
• Sophia Fox - Natural Hazards Planner, Washington Resource Conservation & Development Council
• Tara Mackleit - Fire Management Officer, U.S. Forest Service
• Tom Schoenfelder - Wildfire and Forest Health District Manager, Washington Department of Natural Resources

Before the US West was settled starting in the 1800s, the ecosystems here were generally adapted to wildfires. Forests with ponderosa pine had low-severity wildfires that burned grasses, shrubs, and small trees every 5-30 years, and it gave the trees space to grow strong and healthy without competition from other plants. Forests like lodgepole pine or high alpine spruce and fir forests would have large, intense wildfires every 150-300 years that would clear an area so that the seeds of the trees that had been waiting to sprout had sunlight and space to regrow. Indigenous peoples who lived and moved through this area encouraged and facilitated wildfires where the land needed it to promote healthy ecosystems for crops and foraging.

However, when the land was settled and people built permanent homes, the fear of fire caused land managers to stop all wildfires that started near people. After more than a century and a half of fire suppression, many forests have become crowded with trees. This makes forests unhealthy and more susceptible to pests and extreme wildfire behavior.

Because of this history of fire suppression, combined with the effects of climate change, communities in the US West have experienced wildfires that have been burning larger areas more severely than in the past. It is the responsibility of land managers, agencies, and private homeowners to reduce the risk of wildfires on their lands. Restored ecosystems that are similar to their historical state are more resilient to wildfire and can support diverse plant and animal life.

Asotin County and adjacent areas have significant wildland fire potential due to high hazard conditions such as dense forests, steep terrain, and limited road access. The recent 2024 Cougar Creek Fire spread across 24,000 acres in Asotin County, fueled by over 50 mph winds. The 2021 Dry Gulch and Lick Creek Fires were over 80,000 acres total and both triggered evacuations that forced families to evacuate from their communities.

Fortunately, wildland firefighters suppress a vast majority of ignitions in Asotin County before they exceed 1 acre in size, but fires can escape the initial capacity of firefighters under high, dry, and windy conditions. Lightning-caused ignitions predominate in Asotin County, with the most lightning-caused ignitions occurring in July and August and the most human-caused ignitions in July.

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The WUI is any area where the built environment meets wildfire-prone areas—places where wildland fire can move between natural vegetation and the built environment and result in negative impacts on the community. The built environment includes homes, businesses, infrastructure, services such as utilities, roadways, and geographic features that aid in wildfire suppression, such as roads or ridgetops. People that live and work in the WUI must be aware of the effect that wildland fires have on their lives.

According to the 2020  WildfireRisk to Communities  analysis by the U.S. Forest Service, homes in Asotin County have a greater risk from fire than 91% of counties in the United States. All residents outside of the City of Clarkston live in the WUI planning and prevention area for the 2025 CWPP. These residents are exposed to elevated wildfire risk. The WUI planning and prevention area includes populated areas and the surrounding landscape that could transmit wildland fire towards homes, evacuation routes, and other highly valued resources and assets (see WUI methodology in Appendix B in the CWPP). Enlarge the map to see more details.

Residents that are not surrounded by forests are still part of the WUI. Grasslands can spread fires to neighborhoods and initiate home-to-home spread. Wildfires in grasslands and shrublands destroy more homes in the WUI than wildfires in forests across the United States. Grassland fires are common in Asotin County, such as the 2006 Kurby Fire, 2007 Rockpile Creek Fire, and 2021 Silcott Fire. Homeowners can take action to harden their homes and create defensiblespace to reduce the risk of ignition from wind-driving wildfires in grasslands and suburban and urban neighborhoods.

Parts of Asotin County are at high risk for large, high-severity wildfires due to dense forest conditions, dry and hot weather, and strong, gusty winds. Increasing drought and warming temperatures exacerbate wildfire risk in the area. Proactive work by Asotin County, residents, and partners is imperative to protect lives and property.

Topography and fuel conditions are highly variable across Asotin County, and this variation, plus alignment between wind patterns and topography, help explain the patterns of potential fire behavior across the landscape.

Lower-elevation portions of the County are covered in grasslands that dry out early in the year and carry fast-moving wildfire. Grassland fires can quickly burn uphill into forests in the Southwestern portion of the county. Forested portions of the county can support slower-moving but high-intensity wildfires, especially if shrubs and small trees in the understory serve as ladder fuels and carry wildfire from the surface into treetops. When trees are closely spaced in dense forests, fire can begin spreading as active crown fire. Riparian areas along creeks can serve as natural barriers to fire spread when streams are flowing and vegetation has high moisture content, but after prolonged drought, fire can burn through riparian vegetation and rapidly spread up steep valley slopes along river corridors.

The topography and weather of Asotin County can promote strong winds which can increase fire behavior. If wind is pushing wildfire up a steep slope, it can result in more extreme fire behavior than if a fire is backing down the leeward side of a slope.

Under hot, dry, and windy weather, 15% percent of Asotin County could experience high to extreme fire behavior, and 70% could experience rapid rates of spread that quickly outpace the ability of initial firefighting resources to suppress. High to extreme fire behavior includes ember production that ignites additional fires away from the main fire and the movement of high-intensity fire from treetop to treetop. Such fires are extremely challenging if not impossible to control until winds die down and fuel moisture increases. High-intensity wildfires and active crown fires are most likely in the Southwestern part of Asotin Counts. Homes serve as an additional source of fuel that could produce high-intensity flames, emit embers, and initiate home-to-home ignitions.

Fire growth could be extensive across Asotin County if wildland firefighters cannot engage due to dangerous conditions from extreme fire behavior and if wildland fire moves rapidly through shrublands and grasslands. The greatest potential for rapid fire growth is in the eastern part of the county where grassy fuels dominate.

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Wildfire risk is composed of hazard (potential intensity of wildfire and likelihood of wildfire) and vulnerability (exposure of highly valued resources and their susceptibility to damage). Burn probability is the annual probability of any location burning due to a wildfire. Most of Asotin County has high to very high probability relative to the state of Washington according to the 2023 Pacific Northwest Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment. High burn probabilities occur in much of Asotin County due to the potential for rapid rates of fire spread across expansive grasslands and in areas with steep, complex terrain. Very high burn probabilities were predicted for areas that burned in the 2024 Cougar Creek Fire. Lower burn probabilities are predicted for the area burned by the 2021 Lick Creek Fire, but the extensive colonization of invasive, annual grasses could, in reality, increase the likelihood of wildfire in the burned area.

Another metric of the likelihood of wildfires is the frequency of days with weather conducive to large-scale fire growth. Asotin County frequently experiences days with weather conducive to large-scale fire growth. A Red Flag Warning is issued by the National Weather Service when there is high confidence that Red Flag criteria will be met within the next 24 to 48 hours or when those criteria are already met or exceeded. Days with Red Flag Warnings indicate severe fire weather and require extra vigilance by fire departments and residents. Hot, dry, and windy conditions on Red Flag days can lead to exceptionally fast fire growth and high fire intensity that exceeds the ability of firefighters to quickly suppress the blaze. The occurrence of Red Flag Warnings is variable from year to year due to regional weather patterns and weather anomalies such as El Niño and La Niña. Asotin County experiences, on average, 10 days with weather conditions that qualify as Red Flag Warnings, with 26 occurring in 2015 alone. Climate change will further increase the number of days with very high fire weather danger, potentially by 11-15 days/year.

Wildfires in Asotin County could threaten lives, homes, and property. Almost 10% of homes in Asotin County in the WUI planning and prevention area could be exposed to radiant heat, 17% of homes to embers, 18% of homes to wildfires with rapid rates of spread. Radiant heat from burning vegetation can ignite nearby homes, and embers emitted from burning vegetation or other homes can travel long distances and ignite vegetation and homes away from the main fire.  The percentage of homes potentially exposed to embers is as high as 95% in the Anatone Forestland zone, 80% in the Montgomery Ridge zone, and 75% in the Grouse Flats/Mountain View zone (see below map and explanation of zones). Smoke from a wildfire could impact residents across the county, even in the City of Clarkston and City of Asotin, depending on the location of the fire, wind direction, and smoke dispersal.

Several non-residential highly valued resources could also be exposed to damaging wildfire, including schools and emergency facilities in downtown Asotin, several communication towers, and recreational facilities, including buildings at the Fields Spring State Park, the Washington Division of Fish & Wildlife Public Gun Range, and all of the trailheads, campgrounds, and historic buildings on the Umatilla National Forest. Fuel treatments and other recommendations in this CWPP seek to reduce this exposure and protect critical resources.

Fortunately, there are steps you can take to increase the chance that your home stands strong against a wildfire. Hazard mitigation includes using home hardening practices to reduce the risk of your home igniting from radiant heat or embers, reducing fuel and creating defensible space in the home ignition zone (0-100 feet from a structure), and taking actions to increase the accessibility of your driveway and home to firefighters.

See the full CWPP document (available on the  Asotin County Conservation District (ACCD)website ) for a variety of steps you can take to protect your home.

It is important for residents to work together as a community to mitigate shared wildfire risk. Structure-to-structure ignition is a major concern in high-density WUI neighborhoods and can cause substantial property loss. Neighbors can increase their homes’ chances of survival during a wildfire if they work together to reduce hazards in their overlapping defensible space. Many residents in Asotin County are already taking actions to mitigate their HIZ, and community-wide participation in implementation of the CWPP will help all of Asotin County become more fire adapted.

Evacuation can weigh heavily on the minds of residents in Asotin County. The death of 86 people in Paradise, California during the 2018 Camp Fire, many of whom were stranded on roadways during evacuation, underscores the importance of evacuation preparedness and fuel mitigation along evacuation routes. Roads lined closely with dense, tall vegetation can create flame lengths and heat that are dangerous to evacuees. Roads that may be unpassable during a wildfire event are referred to as potentially non-survivable in this CWPP.

Evacuation preparedness is the responsibility of each resident in Asotin Couty. The best way to get out quickly and safely during an evacuation is to be prepared. 73% of respondents to the CWPP survey have evacuation plans for their home but 61% have not practiced evacuating people, pets, or livestock. Visit the  Ready for Wildfire website  to learn about go-bags and evacuation planning—simple and crucial actions that can save lives.

In addition to preparing a go-bag, have a family emergency plan before the threat of wildfire is in your area. Some residents have family members or neighbors with physical limitations who might struggle to evacuate in a timely manner. Develop specific emergency plans that address these unique needs and vulnerabilities. Parents should work with their neighbors to develop a plan for how to evacuate children that might be home alone.

The Ember Alliance utilized fire behavior predictions to identify road segments that could experience non-survivable conditions during a wildfire. “Non-survivable roadways” were defined as portions of roads adjacent to areas with conditional flame lengths greater than 8 feet or areas with conditional probability of >5% of flame lengths exceeding 8 feet.

Drivers stopped or trapped on potentially non-survivable roadways could have a lower chance of survival due to radiant heat emitted from fires of this intensity. Direct attack of a flaming front is no longer feasible once flame lengths exceed about 8 feet due to the intensity of heat output. Flames greater than 8 feet could also make roads impassable and cut residents off from egress routes. Non-survivable conditions are more common along roads lined by thick forests with abundant ladder fuels, such as trees with low limbs and saplings and tall shrubs beneath overstory trees.

Under high to extreme fire weather conditions, almost 12% of the roads in the Asotin County WUI planning and prevention area could experience non-survivable conditions. About 14% of roads are potentially non-survivable in the Mongomery Ridge zone, 35% of roads in the Anatone Forestland zone, and over 50% of roads in the Umatilla Public Land zone. Most roads on Field Springs State Park could potentially experience non-survivable conditions.

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Some non-survivable road segments across Asotin County are part of primary or secondary evacuation routes, including portions of Peola Road and Lick Creek Road to the west of Asotin County, Asotin Creek Road, Smoothing Iron Road, Cloverland Road, Wenatchee-Big Butte Road, Couse Creek Road, Grouse Creek Road, Grouse Flat Road, and State Route 129 near Field Springs State Park. These areas are a high priority for roadside fuel mitigation to create safer conditions for residents, visitors, fire fighters, and other first responders.

All residents in Asotin County should sign up for local emergency notifications to ensure timely and accurate information during emergencies. Information on emergency notifications was accurate and current as of the writing of the Asotin County CWPP in December 2024. Understanding types of emergency alerts and terminology can help you be prepared and take appropriate action during emergencies. Each county uses its own terminology. Residents can also follow Facebook pages for Asotin County Fire District #1, Blue Mountain Fire District 1, Asotin County Sheriff’s Office, and Asotin County Department of Emergency Management for more information.

All residents should know the primary and secondary evacuation routes from their community, as well as emergency evacuation locations for their family and livestock. Residents should drive these routes under different conditions, such as at night and in the rain, to simulate the poor-visibility that is common in dense smoke from wildfires.

Impacts of wildfires do not end once the flames are extinguished. Intense rainfall events can result in flash floods, erosion, sediment delivery and debris flows the first few years following a wildfire. It is very possible that a large storm in the years following a high-intensity wildfire in Asotin County could result in high to extreme sedimentation along the Snake River, Grande Ronde River, North Fork Asotin Creek, South Fork Asotin Creek, George Creek, Tenmile Creek, and Couse Creek. Many of these areas are important for fish habitat and retaining sediment to protect downstream water users.

Erosion and sedimentation are natural processes that shape streams, transport soil and nutrients across a landscape and create diversity in streams and riparian habitats. However, extreme post-fire sediment delivery and debris flows can damage and destroy homes, community assets, infrastructure, fisheries, and riparian vegetation. On June 3, 2022, flooding occurred in areas impacted by the 2021 Silcott Fire. A severe rain and hailstorm accelerated runoff in the burned region, leading to significant water flow across the landscape and inundation of local infrastructure. The exposed soil and lack of vegetation contributed to accelerated erosion, reshaping the terrain and affecting water quality due to sediment dispersion. Post-fire flooding also occurred in areas impacted by the 2021 Lick Creek Fire.

In addition to post-fire sedimentation, wind erosion can also increase after wildfires due to the removal of vegetation and leaf litter. Dust picked up by the wind can impact ecosystems and air quality for extended periods and across large distances outside of the burn area. Dust storms were observed in Asotin County after the 2021 Lick Creek Fire.

The potential for post-fire sediment delivery and damage to values at risk can be mitigated through activities to improve stream health and resilience, strategic fuel treatments to reduce fire hazards, and pre-planning for emergency response.

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Proactive planning and activities to mitigate impacts of wildfires and post-fire sediment are key components of becoming a fire-adapted community. Recommended actions include:

• Conduct fuels treatments in strategic locations to reduce wildfire severity and extent, decrease the likelihood that hydrophobic soils (soil that repels water) form, and reduce the loss of roots, vegetation, and plant litter that hold soil in. Reduced fire severity can therefore reduce the potential for flooding and sediment transport in some cases.
• Engage with  Washington Department of NaturalResources Post-Fire Recovery Program , a program that works at all levels of the disaster recovery cycle. Funding is intended to support post-fire recovery activities that stabilize and prevent unacceptable degradation to natural and cultural resources and minimize threats to life and property resulting from the effects of a wildfire, as well as long-term efforts to increase the resilience of the landscape and communities against future disturbance.
• Continue ongoing collaboration with the  Okanogan County Long TermRecovery Group  (OCLTRG) to prepare emergency managers to rapidly undertake post-fire emergency response and mitigation measures. Pre-planning can help emergency managers identify points of contact with organizations that need to be involved in post-fire recovery efforts. Pre-planning can also help managers understand tradeoffs of different mitigation approaches (e.g., applying straw mulch, applying seed mixes, and building water barriers) to determine which might be more appropriate in different areas given burn severity, soil texture, topography, values at risk, and available resources.
• Work with WSDOT and Asotin County Road Department to improve and maintain culverts, drainage features, and roadways in areas with elevated risk of post-fire sedimentation and debris flows. Proactive measures to improve infrastructure can reduce the potential for severe road damage in the future.
• Inform residents in areas with an elevated risk of post-fire sedimentation about proactive measures they can take to prepare for post-fire effects, including (1) working with insurance agents to determine their need for flood insurance and/or an earth movement, earthquake, and landslide rider to your homeowner’s policy, (2) elevating and anchoring electrical panels, propane tanks, wiring, appliance, and heating systems, (3) securing important documents in waterproof deposit boxes, (4) ensuring sump pumps are working and have battery-operated backup power sources, (5) installing terraces or slope drains that could protect their home but without altering drainage patterns that could worsen conditions for their neighbors, and (6) consulting a forester to discuss pre-fire fuel mitigation options to reduce fire severity and reduce thepotential for damaging post-fire sediment delivery and debris flows.

 After the Fire Washington  is a useful resource for information on how to prepare for and mitigate post-fire impacts.

CWPP zones are areas with shared fire risk where residents can organize and support each other to effectively reduce wildfire risk and enhance emergency preparedness. We delineated 19 zones in Asotin County by considering clusters of addresses, connectivity of roads, topographic features, land parcels, land ownership, and local knowledge of community organization. Amendments were made to boundaries based on local knowledge of the CWPP Core Team.

The Asotin County Conservation District conducted on-the-ground observations to assess fire risk, fire suppression challenges, evacuation hazards, and home ignition zone hazards during the summer of 2024, and The Ember Alliance combined these observations with output from our fire behavior and post-fire sedimentation analyses. Fire risk incorporates the type and probability of wildfire in the area. Evacuation hazards include roadway quality and quantity, roadside hazards, and cell phone coverage. Suppression challenges include the fire protection coverage, accessibility of roads for fire engines, water sources, and home/road signage. Home ignition zone hazards are based on the general quality of home hardening and defensible space work on structures in the area, the exposure of homes to wildfire, and the potential for home-to-home ignitions. Post-fire hazards include the potential for landslides and post-fire erosion and the vulnerability of clean surface drinking water to wildfire. Zone ratings are specific to Asotin County and are not suitable for comparing this county to other counties in Washington or the country.

Fuel treatments reduce the amount of fuel in strategic locations, reducing fire risk to nearby communities and creating tactical opportunities for wildland firefighters to engage with wildland fires. Fuel treatments can also create healthy, restored forest conditions with abundant understory plants, improved wildlife habitat, and lower the risk of high-severity wildfires. The effectiveness of fuel treatments is influenced by a variety of factors, including the intensity, quality, and extent of treatment, location of treatments, maintenance of treatments, weather conditions and fire behavior, and actions of firefighters. Fuel treatment methods include tree thinning, pruning, pile burning, broadcast prescribed burning, and fuel mastication.

To strategically plan future treatments, we need to know where past fuels treatments and wildfires have occurred. Between 2003 and 2024, the U.S. Forest Service thinned and/or broadcast prescribed burned 27,600 acres in and around Asotin County to reduce wildfire risk and restore ecosystem health. The U.S. Forest Service reports a total of 43,900 acres treated in the area because many areas were treated more than once. Initial entries involved cutting trees, follow-up entries focused on rearranging fuel generating by thinning, and third entries included broadcast prescribed burning to further mitigate wildfire risk, where appropriate. Public land managers with the Washington Department of Natural Resources, Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife, Washington State Parks, and Asotin County Conservation District and private residents completed treatments on an additional 5,000 acres between 2013-2023 in and around Asotin County.

Washington Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Forest Service have successfully completed numerous large-scale broadcast prescribed burns in Asotin County. Alteration to fuels accomplished by the 4,200 acres of prescribed burning on the Umatilla National Forest in 2014-2015 likely contributed to the ability of firefighters to stop the northward spread of the 2024 Cougar Creek Fire. Broadcast prescribed burning can be an extremely effective method to reduce hazardous fuels and restore ecological conditions across a variety of grassland, shrubland, and forest ecosystems. Less than 1% of prescribed burns escape containment lines, and most of these are rapidly suppressed. The wildland fire community soberly reviews prescribed burn escapes to produce lessons learned and make improvements.

Altering potential wildfire behavior and restoring ecological conditions requires a landscape-scale approach to treatments across ownership boundaries. We located and prioritized project areas for fuel treatments within and around Asotin County to be implemented in the next 5 years. These treatments fall into the following categories: road safety and accessibility, enhanced suppression response, fire risk reduction, ecological restoration, and highly valued resources and assets protection and access. Many of these project areas cross ownership boundaries and require community-wide commitment, coordination, and collaboration among private landowners, public land managers, and forestry professionals to create successful outcomes.

Project areas were identified through partner collaboration. These decisions were made by representatives from the Asotin County Department of Emergency Management, Asotin County Fire District #1, Blue Mountain Fire District 1, Washington Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Forest Service, Asotin County Conservation District, Asotin County Noxious Weed Control Board, Washington State Parks, Washington Division of Fish and Wildlife, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Clearwater Power Company, and Avista Utilities.

Partners came together in October 2024 and compared maps showing modeled wildfire behavior, burn probability, post-fire sediment delivery, roadway safety, infrastructure and values at risk of wildfire, potential operational delineations (PODs), land ownership, ember cast, and past fires and fuel treatments. In groups, the partners delineated potential projects areas and collaboratively identified priorities. In November 2024, the Core Team refined these project areas, created goals, and decided on leaders and timelines. You can find a table in Section 4 of the CWPP that describes the area of each CWPP priority project areas, objectives and methods, project leads, strategic alignment, and relative priority.

Click on the different projects on the map to see details about them.

The CWPP priority projects focus on high-priority locations to address in the next 5 years, but this prioritization does not discourage ecological restoration and fuel mitigation in other areas. If multiple neighbors work together to mitigate fire risk across ownership boundaries, it could attract funding and increase the priority and effectiveness of treating those areas.  Land managers, county administrators, and residents should reevaluate fire risks and reprioritize projects as conditions change over time.

The Core Team, partners, and residents had many ideas and suggestions on actions that would help create a more fire-adapted community. We collected these ideas and suggestions, collaboratively assigned them an implementation phase, and prioritized actions in an implementation plan for the CWPP. See Section 5 of the CWPP for a table of prioritized recommendations for action over the next five years ( Asotin CountyConservation District (ACCD)website ).

The Asotin CWPP is a call to action! Becoming a fire adapted community and decreasing wildfire risk takes concerted effort, time, and coordination. Use these maps, figures, and implementation recommendations to spark action on your property, across your neighborhood, and throughout your zone. The need to protect lives, safety, and property from wildfire is too great to wait.