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State officials outline wildfire risk, detection advances and community resilience funding
Summary
Officials from Emergency Management and the Department of Natural Resources described increasing wildfire frequency and severity, detection technologies that have cut response times, grant funding for community resilience, and the need for tailored approaches across the state.
Ann Marie Marshall Doty (Assistant Director for Disaster Resilience) and George Geisler (Washington State Forester, DNR) briefed the committee on wildfire risk, response and mitigation.
Marshall Doty framed wildfire as a recurrent statewide hazard: between 2020 and 2025 more than 2.3 million acres burned and Washington now faces roughly a 70% chance in any given…
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