Cal Poly Launches New Planning Tool to Strengthen Wildfire Mitigation in Urban Communities
February 22, 2023 -- Interdisciplinary researchers unveil a free, data-driven guidebook to help local governments move beyond suppression and build more resilient, wildfire-prepared communities
A new guidebook to improve wildfire mitigation work in urban areas, developed by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the fields of architecture, planning, geography, and fire science & ecology at Cal Poly’s Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) FIRE Institute and Texas A&M University’s Hazard Reduction & Recovery Center, is now available. Read more about the project, funded by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, in the Cal Poly Report news story (2/11/2026) by clicking here. To request a digital copy of the PIRS™ for Wildfire Guidebook, contact the WUI FIRE Institute at wui@calpoly.edu.
