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Butte County adopts rewritten 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Summary
The Butte County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously April 22 to approve a full rewrite of the county's Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), a document intended to guide fuel treatments, home hardening and post-fire recovery work over the next 5–10 years.
Butte County supervisors voted April 22 to approve the county's 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan and authorized the chair to sign the document.
The plan, presented to the board by Rick Manson, Deputy Chief of Administration for Butte County Fire and CAL FIRE's Butte Unit, is a full rewrite of the county's previous CWPP (first adopted in 2006; last signed in 2021). Manson said the document aligns the county-level plan with the Healthy Forests Restoration Act framework and with state review processes, and is intended to prioritize fuels treatments, structural ignitability reduction and resilient landscape recommendations across communities.
Manson told the board the rewrite incorporated expanded, data-driven hazard modeling, community-level assessments…
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