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Georgia Comprehensive Plans
2018This web page contains links to nearly all local comprehensive plans in Georgia. -
Fairfax, VA, 2035 Comprehensive Plan
Adopted February 2019The city’s comprehensive plan was adopted on February 2019, organizes its core outcomes in 5 main Chapters and 12 sub sections. -
Hilton Head Island, SC, Comprehensive Plan
Adopted October 2020The city’s comprehensive plan initially adopted on October 2020, organizes its core value in six subsequent chapters. -
Greensboro, NC, GSO2040
Adopted June 2020The city’s comprehensive plan initially adopted on June 2020, organizes its policy recommendations under 6 Big Ideas. -
Maryland Comprehensive Plans
2023This web page, maintained by the Maryland Department of Planning, contains links to nearly all local comprehensive plans adopted by municipalities and counties in Maryland, organized by county. -
Fate, TX, Forward Fate
Adopted October 2021by: The City of Fate, TexasThe city’s comprehensive plan, initially adopted in October 2021, includes 3 chapters. -
Dark-Sky Association: Guides and How-Tos
2023This web page provides links to a wide range of guidance materials for advocates, lighting designers, and local officials to help them minimize light pollution. -
A Municipal Guide for Converting to LED Street Lighting
2020This industry guide offers step-by-step process to convert a municipality's street lighting to LED. -
Santa Barbara, CA, Outdoor Lighting & Streetlight Design Guidelines
Updated July 26, 2013This guide establishes the city's outdoor lighting design requirements for public and private lighting. -
Kennebunkport, ME, Town Code
Updated December 2022The town’s outdoor lighting ordinance is simple but widely cited as one of the best outdoor lighting ordinances. -
Lincoln, NE, Outdoor Lighting Study
January 3, 2008by: Molson AssociatesThis report examines current lighting standards in Lincoln and makes recommendations for new outdoor lighting standards. -
Oakville, CA, Municipal Lighting Strategy and Policy Study: Lighting of Sports Fields in Residential Neighborhoods
Approved April 6, 2010This report studies sports-field lighting to minimize impacts on existing established neighborhoods. -
Blinded by the Light: The Enforcement of Outdoor Municipal Lighting Ordinances in Texas
2015 TMCEC Prosecutor Conferenceby: Ryan TurnerThis paper examines methods of lighting ordinance enforcement. -
Detroit, MI, A Placemaking Vision for Downtown Detroit
2013The city’s downtown plan outlines how placemaking strategies to strengthen public spaces and incorporates creative placemaking to support arts and culture. -
Encouraging Efficient Green Infrastructure Investment
2013by: Environmental Finance Center, University of Maryland, Jennifer CottingThis report discusses the numerous federal green infrastructure policies, funding, and technical assistance programs supporting green infrastructure implementation. -
A Comparative Risk Assessment Framework for Wildland Fire Management: The 2010 Cohesive Strategy Science Report
2011by: David Calkin, Alan Ager, Karin RileyThis report explores the general science available for a risk based approach for the purpose of fire and fuels management and presents multi-scalar applicable analyses. -
Archetypes of Wildland-Urban Interface Communities: Making Communities Fire Resilient
2015by: Daniel WilliamsThis report presents the social characteristics of WUI communities and discusses innovative approaches related to wildfire planning. -
Critical Elements in the Development and Implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
The Fire Environment—Innovations, Management, and Policy Conference Proceedings, March 2007by: Pamela Jakes, Sam Burns, Antony ChengThis article discusses the benefits of CWPP development based on case studies of eight States – California, Colorado, Florida, Minnesota, Montana, Oregon, Virginia, and Wisconsin. -
Community Wildfire Protection Planning: The Importance of Framing, Scale, and Building Sustainable Capacity
Journal of Forestry, 110(8): 415-420, 2012by: Sam Burns, Victoria Sturtevant, Emily StaychockThis article provides information on best management practices (BMPs) that facilitate CWPP development. -
Categorizing the Social Context of the Wildland Urban Interface: Adaptive Capacity for Wildfire and Community “Archetypes”
Forest Science, 61(2): 298-310, 2015by: Travis Paveglio, Cassandra Moseley, Emily DavisThis article examines in detail the adaptive capacity of communities from wildfires based on the comparison of 18 existing community wildfire case studies. -
Factors Related to Building Loss Due to Wildfires in The Conterminous United States
The Ecological Society of America, 26(7): 2323-2338, 2016by: Patricia Alexandre, Susan Stewart, Miranda MockrinThis article examines factors affecting building loss due to wildfires in the conterminous Unites States, and discusses the impact of ecoregions on relative roles. -
Adapting to Wildfire: Rebuilding After Home Loss
Society & Natural Resources, 28(8): 839-856, 2014by: Miranda Mockrin, Susan Stewart, Volker RadeloffThis article aims to understand the adaptive capacities of individuals and communities post-wildfires based on the case study of the 2010 Fourmile Canyon Fire in Boulder, Colorado. -
Fourmile Canyon: Living with Wildfire
Fire Management Today, May 2011by: Patricia Champ, Hannah SmithThis article discusses the case study of Fourmile Canyon Fire of Colorado for presenting the characterization of the residents living in high wildfire-risk areas of the Fourmile Fire evacuation zone. -
Demographic Trends, the Wildland–Urban Interface, and Wildfire Management
Society & Natural Resources, 22(8): 777-782, 2008by: Roger Hammer, Susan Stewart, Volker RadeloffThis article discusses emergence of WUI and the impact of demographic trends on the wildfire management problem in the United States. -
Defining the Wildland–Urban Interface
Journal of Forestry, 201-207, June 2007by: Susan Stewart, Volker Radeloff, Roger HammerThis article presents the policy definition of WUI and provides recommendations to guide strategic planning of the WUI. -
Social Learning in a Policy-Mandated Collaboration: Community Wildfire Protection Planning in the Eastern United States
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 53(6): 681-699, 2009by: Rachel Brummel, Kristen Nelson, Pamela JakesThis article investigates social learning and transformative learning in three case studies of Community Wildfire Protection Planning (CWPP), based in Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Florida. -
The Relative Impacts of Vegetation, Topography and Spatial Arrangement on Building Loss to Wildfires in Case Studies of California and Colorado
Landscape Ecology, 31(2): 415-430, 2016by: Susan Stewart, Miranda Mockrin, Avi Bar-MassadaThis article presents the case studies of two fires: San Diego, CA and Boulder, CO. It analyses factors that impact the probability of building loss in a wildfire event. -
Trying Not to Get Burned: Understanding Homeowners’ Wildfire Risk–Mitigation Behaviors
Environmental Management, 50(6): 1139-1151, 2012by: Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia Champ, Nicholas FloresThis article examines implementation of wildfire risk mitigation measures based on the case study of Larimer and Boulder counties of Colorado. -
The Hidden Consequences of Fire Suppression
Park Science, 28(3): 75-80, 2012by: Carol MillerThis article discusses computer modelling useful in quantifying and monitoring the various impacts of wildfires based on the case study of Yosemite and Sequoia – Kings Canyon National Parks. -
Using Structure Locations as a Basis for Mapping the Wildland Urban Interface
Journal of Environmental Management, 128: 540-547, October 2013by: Avi Bar-Massada, Susan Stewart, Miranda MockrinThis article examines a WUI data mapping method in order to determine WUI housing development patterns in California, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Colorado. -
Trial by Fire: Community Wildfire Protection Plans Put to the Test
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 22(8): 1134–1143, 2013by: Pamela Jakes, Victoria SturtevantThis article analyses the advantages of establishing CWPPs and planning processes in building a community’s adaptive capacity to wildfires. -
Wildfire Risk in the Wildland–urban Interface: A Simulation Study in Northwestern Wisconsin
Forest Ecology and Management, 258(9): 1990-1999, 2009by: Avi Bar Massada, Susan Stewart, Todd HawbakerThis article examines and conducts research on the wildfire risk affecting a specific WUI area in northwestern Wisconsin. -
Wildfire Risk and Housing Prices: A Case Study from Colorado Springs
Land Economics, May 2007by: Patricia Champ, Geoffrey Donovan, David ButryThis article examines the effectiveness of the Colorado Springs Fire Department’s wildfire risk rating project based on the assessment of home price and wildfire risk equation. -
How Risk Management Can Prevent Future Wildfire Disasters in the Wildland-Urban Interface
PNAS, 111(2): 746-751, 2014by: Jack Cohen, Matthew Thompson, AICP, Mark FinneyThis article examines how various agencies and stakeholders associated with land management in the WUI can apply principles of risk analysis for wildfire management. -
Home Landscaping for Fire
2007by: Glenn Nader, Steve Quarles, Gary NakamuraThis guide discusses the incorporation of fire safe concepts into the residential landscape for home protection against wildfires. -
Disaster Mitigation Act
42 U.S. Code, §5133, 2000by: FEMAThis statute authorizes a program for pre-disaster mitigation, to streamline the administration of disaster relief, to control the Federal costs of disaster assistance, and for other purposes through relevant legal assistance. -
Sonoma County, CA, Community Wildfire Protection Plan
2016by: FireSAFE SonomaCommunity outreach and input is key to the development of this CWPP. It aims to coordinate fuels treatment for community protection and landscape conservation from the impact of wildfires. -
California Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map
2007This interactive map depicts the Fire Hazard Severity Zones in the State Responsibility Area of California based on multiple factors to effectively mitigate wildfire risks to buildings located in these zones. -
CAL FIRE
1885CAL Fire’s web page presents organized information on wildfire hazard management and conservation of natural resources in California. -
Fire Adapted Communities
2017This web page provides a host of information about the development of fire adapted communities (FAC). -
Jefferson County, WA, Tiny Homes — Site Built Requirements
Jefferson County, WA, Department of Community Development Brochure #19, n.dThis fact sheet explains how Jefferson County, WA, regulates site-built tiny houses. -
Tiny House Zoning Regulations: What You Need to Know
Curbed Handbook, September 22, 2016by: Emily NonkoThis blog post explains how state and local regulations affect opportunities to site and occupy tiny houses. -
Wildfire, Wildlands, and People: Understanding and Preparing for Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Report RMRS-GTR-299, January 2013by: Susan Stein, Sara Comas, Helene ClevealandThis report discusses the relationship between increased development and wildfire risk, and the ecology and the characteristics of wildfire with the help of case studies of communities in Florida, Oregon, Washington, Maine, and Georgia. -
Firebreak: Wildfire Resilience Strategies for Real Estate
November 2020by: Elizabeth FosterThis report examines the threat wildfire poses to communities in the wildland-urban interface and explores the strategies developers are using to mitigate wildfire risk. -
Living with Wildfire in Telluride Fire Protection District, Colorado
2017by: James Meldrum, Lilia Falk, Patricia ChampThis report provides wildfire mitigation activities in WUI communities based on the case study of Telluride Fire Protection District of San Miguel County, Colorado. -
The 2010 Wildland-Urban Interface of the Conterminous United States
2015by: Sebastian Martinuzzi, Susan Stewart, David HelmersThis report with the help of spatial and statistical analytics attempts to summarize the WUI extent in the conterminous United States in 2010 and emphasizes wildfire management in WUI. -
The Rising Cost of Fire Operations: Effects on the Forest Service’s Non-Fire Work
2015This report focuses on the Forest Agency’s resource depletion towards firefighting instead of restoration projects based on the agency’s budget assessment for a period of 20 years. -
The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Problem
2010by: Jack CohenThis report examines housing destruction occurring over a century in the United States and discusses wildfire management practices. -
Housing Arrangement and Location Determine the Likelihood of Housing Loss Due to Wildfire
PLoS ONE, 7(3): e33954, 2012by: Alexandra Syphard, Jon Keeley, Avi Bar-MassadaThis article aims to examine the relation between housing development patterns and the vulnerability to wildfires. It is based on the case study of the fires in Santa Monica Mountains region (Ventura County and LA County), and San Diego County of California. -
Potential for Future Development on Fire-Prone Lands
Journal of Forestry, 198-205, June 2008by: Patricia Gude, Ray Rasker, Jeff van den NoortThis article presents data illustrating the emerging problem of wildfires for western communities.