Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
You can find the final Community Wildfire Protection Plan here.
The City of Chico, located where the Northern Sacramento Valley
meets the foothills of the Southern Cascade mountains, is not
unfamiliar with catastrophic wildfire. The deadly and destructive
Camp Fire in 2018 nearly burned into city limits, and many other
large fires have burned in the foothills east of town in the
past. Recent urban conflagrations including the 2017 Tubbs Fire
and 2021 Marshall fire have illuminated the potential for
high-consequence wildfire events to occur in densely-built urban
landscapes.
The 2003 Healthy Forest Restoration Act encourages communities like Chico to collaboratively develop Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) to assess their wildfire threats and identify specific areas for targeted vegetation management to reduce exposure to destructive wildfires. CWPPs can also propose improvements in wildland firefighting capacity, public engagement, or other activities which improve community wildfire resilience. The primary administrative function of CWPPs is to act as a living “project list.”