PROJECT WILDFIRE

Project Wildfire is the organized result of a Deschutes County effort to create long-term wildfire mitigation strategies and provide for a disaster-resistant community.  Created by Deschutes County ordinance 8.24.010, Project Wildfire is the Local Coordinating Group for Deschutes County that facilitates, educates, disseminates and maximizes community efforts towards effective fire planning and mitigation. 

Our mission is to prevent deaths, injuries, property loss and environmental damage resulting from wildfires.   By building partnerships, sharing resources and eliminating redundancies, we often succeed where individuals and solo agencies cannot.   Our successes include a variety of community projects: an emergency egress route from a heavily populated subdivision, a Hazard Analysis & Vulnerability Study, the Emergency Preparedness Network notification system, an automated weather station, and the very successful FireFree program.