Community Wildfire Protection Plans
Deployment and Digitization
Adapting and evolving strategies for wildfire prevention is crucial. The threat wildfires present to communities across the country is quickly accelerating to encompass more and more neighborhoods within the Wildfire Urban Interface (WUI) with every fire season. Tools that promote information sharing and collaboration among planners and communities are central to establishing effective mitigation strategies.
A digitized Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) empowers communities by making vital information accessible to all. CWPPs become a place where citizens can interact with and visualize the data that matters to them. Interactive maps and apps inform planning processes and help tell the story around a community's mitigation efforts while citizen surveys give insight on home hardening and ignitability. A digital CWPP preserves what is the key to successful wildfire planning effort - relationships. By helping facilitate the planning process, we transform CWPPs from mere vehicles to secure grants or dry fact compilations to dynamic storytelling tools that engage a community, we cultivate a sense of unity and teamwork.
This document will serve as a source of guidance for leveraging Esri's CWPP Template with your own data and resources. Use it as reference as you navigate the steps to deploy and configure this template within your own ArcGIS environment.
I. Access and Deployment
Good news! With an ArcGIS Online account, you already have access to the Esri CWPP Template. Follow the steps and guidance video below to access and deploy within your ArcGIS Online or Enterprise environment.
1) Navigate to the Hub Application
2) Choose "New" under the Initiative section
3) Choose "Browse Templates" to access Esri provides Hub templates
4) Search for "Esri CWPP" and select the "World" filter option. Select "Activate Initiative".
5) Name your initiative to make it your own and click "Go"
6) Once the Template has finished loading, this is the view of the landing page.
7) Return to ArcGIS Online and note the new folder created to house your new hub content.
II. Configuration
Now that you have successfully deployed the Esri CWPP Hub Template it's time to make it your own. Let's begin by brining the data you already have into your new CWPP!
Risk and Response
The Risk and Response page of the CWPP Template is a space to organize data and applications that provide an avenue to visual important community characteristics. Additionally, use this page to provide transparency of the existing resources available to respond to wildfire such as active fire stations, areas of responsibility and the distribution of fire fighting apparatus.
1) Within the folder that has been created, search for a Feature Layer called "CWPP." This is the cornerstone of your report and represents the physical boundary areas for which your CWPP pertains to. Follow the steps below to update its geometry.
2) Navigate back to the contents of the new CWPP folder. Find the collection of maps that has been created automatically. Repeat the steps as shown for each map to update cartography for your Current Conditions Viewer Application.
3) Navigate back to the CWPP folder within your contents and select the "Current Conditions Viewer" Experience Builder Application. Open the application... it's user experience has already been taken care of! Make any design or functionality changes you'd like.
4) Navigate back to the CWPP folder within your contents and select "CWPP Fire Response Resources" Dashboards Application. Follow the steps displayed below to substitute the empty template map and data for your own and reconfigure dashboard elements.
5) Now that you have configured the template applications provided as apart of the Risk and Response page, it's time to replace the empty versions with what you've created yourself. Follow the steps below to incorporate your own configured apps.
Mitigation
The Mitigation page of the CWPP Template is a space to organize data and applications that describe the planned and current mitigation efforts taking place around your community. Additionally, we provide the ability for citizens to complete a Survey123 that gives planners insight into structural ignitability across the CWPP area. Use this page to provide a platform for involvement and collaboration, allowing members of the community to sign up for volunteer activity and stay up to date on all things wildfire mitigation.
1) Within the folder that has been created, search for a Feature Layer called "CWPP Project Points and Areas." This, similar to the first layer we worked with, "CWPP", is central to the applications and data products on the Mitigation page. Follow the same steps as described in the first step of the "Risk and Response" page to update the layer.
2) Let's provide the public with a platform to mitigate wildfire risk in their own backyards... enter Survey123! Your CWPP Hub Template has come with an example of survey dedicated to enabling community members to report on the conditions on their own property. Use it as reference and build your own survey your community will love!
3) Return to the contents within your CWPP folder to find an Experience Builder application titled "Proposed CWPP Projects." This application has already been updated with the CWPP boundary and projects you previously added. Make any changes to the user interface by configuring the Experience Builder. Change the survey by editing the survey in your contents titled "CWPP Public Feedback."
4) Return to your contents within the CWPP folder. The final step of configuration has been taken care of for you! Check out the survey pre-imbedded in the mitigation page. This survey, "CWPP Volunteer Survey" allows community members to report and record the volunteer activity they've contributed to.