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Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative

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Updated October 2024
Posted September 2022

Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative
Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative
Building a Resilient Future Together!
  • Priority Projects 1 & 3
    • Project Lead: Ventura Regional FSC
    • Project 1: Update County CWPP
    • Project 3: Standardization
  • Priority Projects 2 & 6
    • Project Lead: Ventura County RCD
    • Project 2: Wildfire Education Campaign
    • Project 6: CA Wildfire Summit
  • Priority Projects 4 & 5
    • Project Lead: Ojai Valley FSC
    • Project 4: Vulnerability Mapping
    • Project 5: Vulnerability & Evacuation Assessment

Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative:

Through regional collaboration, the VCWC will work to coordinate resources, advise local and state agencies, work with the community, and secure funding to help prevent and recover from wildfires.

  • Secured funding ($5 million+ already and counting!)
  • Regional coordination & connections
  • Elevate the needs of YOUR City or Community
  • Conduit between regulators & funders
  • Community Engagement
    • "Calm" the noise
    • Engage
    • Townhalls & Listening Sessions
  • Act Fast!

The Collaborative MissionTo establish a countywide, collaborative approach to design, implement and maintain a holistic, wildfire resiliency strategy that builds individual, local and regional capacities to better prepare for, prevent, mitigate, respond to, and recover from potential wildfire threats for Ventura County neighborhoods and communities located in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI), now and into the future."

Goals

  1. Update the Ventura County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
  2. Facilitate a holistic wildfire outreach campaign across the County of Ventura, targeting vulnerable communities through wildfire town halls.
  3. Create a County-wide home hardening resiliency program
  4. Create a fine-scale hazard, risk, and vulnerability mapping and online dashboard
  5. Facilitate a wildfire vulnerability and evacuation assessment
  6. Host the first California Wildfire Summit to promote collaboration and important information sharing across the State

https://vcrcd.org/vcwc/