Wildland Urban Interface Resources

IAFC Positions

Go to Wildland/Urban Interface positions

Downloadable Tools and Other Resources

Operational Considerations for Addressing Wildland and Outdoor Fires (pdf)

Your Role in Fire-Adapted Communities (pdf)

Wildland Fire Policy Committee Guiding Principles for Operating in the WUI (pdf)

Missions Report (pdf)
This report examines the U.S.'s current intergovernmental structure for wildland fire protection and response. The primary objective was to describe the existing legal responsibilities, authorities and roles of federal, state, local and tribal wildland fire protection organizations, with particular emphasis on the response to wildfires in the proximity of jurisdictional boundaries. The focus is on the jurisdictional and legal complexities of wildland fire protection including structure protection and structural fire suppression in the wildland-urban interface, the values at risk within jurisdictions, the implications on government's ability to deliver effective and cost efficient wildfire protection and suppression services.

Mutual Expectations for Preparedness and Suppression In the Interface (pdf)

A Call to Action A New Wildland Fire Accord: It Is in Your Hands (pdf)
This call-to-action reflects the thoughts of a small cadre of U.S. federal, state and local wildland fire agency leaders and is meant to stimulate Presidential, Congressional and Gubernatorial leadership on what it will take for all of us collectively to fix the United States wildland fire problem.

Quadrennial Fire Review (QFR) (pdf)
Details: January 2009 IAFC On Scene
The IAFC thanks Don Artley, Kurt Latipow, David Driscoll, Bruce Suenram, Tom Kuntz, Mike Brown and Wayne Mitchell for their hard work and for ensuring that state and local government were represented throughout the development of this report.

National Wildfire Coordinating Group

• 1/8/2009 Update on the Modifications to the Interagency Strategy for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (pdf)
• Background: 7/18/08 Modification of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy Guidance and IAFC participation
• Modification of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy Guidance - Communications Plan (pdf, 7/18/08)

Recommended Mitigation Practices for Property Owners and Guidelines for Use of Private Resources

• IAFC position: Recommended Wildland Fire Mitigation Practices for Property Owners and Guidelines for Use of Private Resources (pdf)
• Private Resource Utilization Guidelines (pdf)
• Abstract: Wildland Fire Policy Committee Develops Private Resource Utilization Guidelines
• Details: October 1, 2008 IAFC On Scene

Advancing Wildland Fire Training for Fire Departments Implementation Plan (pdf)
Implementation actions 1a-1c from the 2002 report Changing Role and Needs of Local, Rural and Volunteer Fire Departments in the Wildland Urban Interfaceand subsequent findings of the 2004 task group report Advancing Wildland Fire Training for Fire Departments (AWFT).

Websites & External Resources

• National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy
• Firewise
• GEOMAC - Wildland Fire Support
• InciWeb - Incident Information System
• National Association of State Foresters
• National Interagency Fire Center
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group
• Roscommon Equipment Center
• U.S. Department of the Interior
• U.S. Drought Monitor
• U.S. Forest Service - Fire and Aviation Management
• Western Governors' Association
• Wildland Firefighter Foundation