Wildfire Resources for Northern Nevada Homeowners
We’ve gathered trusted guides, checklists, and educational resources to help you prepare your household, protect your property, and better understand wildfire in our region.
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Wildfire Preparedness
Wildfire preparation starts at home. Learn how to harden your home, reduce ignition risks, and create defensible space to give your property and family a better chance of staying safe.
Family Emergency Plan
A good emergency plan helps your family know what to do before disaster strikes. Use this guide to review, update, and strengthen your family’s wildfire preparedness and evacuation plan.
Ready, Set, Go!
Learn the Ready, Set, Go! approach to wildfire preparedness, response, and evacuation. Developed to help communities prepare before wildfire threatens, this program provides practical resources for residents and first responders.
Are You Wildfire Ready?
Prepare your home one week at a time with this practical guide. Explore steps for creating defensible space, reducing wildfire risk, and developing an evacuation plan.
Red Flag Warnings
Understand what a Red Flag Warning means and what actions you should take when fire weather conditions create an elevated wildfire threat. Includes safety tips and additional wildland fire information.
Wildfire Evacuation Checklist
When an evacuation is ordered, every second matters. Use this checklist to help you evacuate quickly and safely—and remember, nothing you own is worth your life.
More Ready, Set, Go! Resources
Access additional Ready, Set, Go! guides, checklists, and educational materials to help you and your family prepare for wildfire.
More Living With Fire Resources
Explore a growing library of Living With Fire publications with practical wildfire preparedness information for homeowners and communities. View resources online, download and print them, or learn how to request copies for your area.
Protect Your Home
Be Ember Aware!
Embers can travel more than a mile ahead of a wildfire and are a major cause of home ignition. Learn how to identify and reduce vulnerable materials around your home before the embers arrive.
Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide
Learn how existing home features can be upgraded to better withstand wildfire. This guide provides practical recommendations and illustrations for reducing your home’s vulnerability to ignition.
How to Improve My Defensible Space
Defensible space creates a managed buffer around your home that can reduce wildfire risk and provide firefighters with a safer area to defend your property. Learn how to create a safer, healthy, and fire-conscious landscape without removing all vegetation.
Nevada Firescaping
Learn practical landscaping principles for creating a more fire-conscious yard in Nevada. Discover how the right plants, placement, maintenance, and water-wise landscaping can help reduce ignition risk.
Community Wildfire Preparedness
Community Wildfire Protection Plans
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) brings residents, fire agencies, government, land managers, and other partners together to identify wildfire risks and prioritize solutions. Learn how communities can work together to reduce risk and build long-term resilience.
Fire Adapted Communities
Learn what it means to become a Fire Adapted Community and how neighborhoods can live better with wildfire. Explore practical tools, programs, and community-based actions that can reduce risk and strengthen wildfire resilience.