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Valley County officials warn funding uncertainty could stall wildfire mitigation; mobile risk dashboard coming
Summary
At the April 14 Valley County commissioners meeting, county wildfire staff and partners described progress on the Community Wildfire Protection Plan, an incoming mobile parcel-level risk dashboard and a surge in Firewise grant applications, while warning that some outside funding sources remain uncertain.
Valley County wildfire staff told the Board of County Commissioners on April 14 that the county has an active effort to update its Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) and is building tools and partnerships to speed on-the-ground mitigation — but that some outside grant funding remains uncertain.
The county’s wildfire coordinator said the CWPP “is basically the main document you need to apply for grants, to get funding for private landowners and or cities, government,” and that the county’s fire working group is large and active, with 42 participants providing input at a recent kickoff meeting.
County staff described several near-term items: a mobile risk dashboard that ranks parcel-level wildfire hazard and will be available to incident managers; a surge in Firewise grant applications; and work to assemble “adjoining…
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