The NFPA Wildland Fire Operations Division has been collaborating with the Fire Protection Research Foundation to issue a Request for Proposals (RFP) on "Addressing Community Wildfire Risk: A Review and Assessment of Regulatory and Planning Tools".  The purpose of the study is to better understand the scope and effectiveness of regulations and planning tools used to mitigate the risk of wildfire to residents and property. A copy of the RFP has been attached for a more detailed project summary.  Please forward this RFP to anyone that you think would be interested in responding.

The overall goal of this project is to review and assess the effectiveness of regulatory planning tools designed to address community wildfire risk, and to communicate lessons learned to communities considering such regulation. Achieving this goal will be accomplished by defining the WUI regulatory landscape through the identification of regulatory tools, categorizing these tools, and evaluating them to clarify their effectiveness. The deliverables of this project will be used as the basis for a follow-up effort to promote the use of regulations and planning tools designed to reduce wildland fire risk to lives and property in the Wildland Urban Interface.