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Vegetation Management Program

 Vegetation Management Program
Addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other issues on SRA lands

The Vegetation Management Program (VMP) is a cost-sharing program that focuses on the use of prescribed fire, and some mechanical means, for addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other resource management issues on State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands. The use of prescribed fire mimics natural processes, restores fire to its historic role in wildland ecosystems, and provides significant fire hazard reduction benefits that enhance public and firefighter safety. 
Landowners may choose to apply for participation in the Vegetation Management Program. The Unit VMP Coordinator will make the determination as to the suitability of a project for funding through the Vegetation Management Program. When approved as a VMP project, CAL FIRE assumes the liability for conducting the prescribed burn.
 

Fuel Breaks 
Fuel breaks provide opportunities for firefighting success under less extreme fire weather conditions by providing areas of lower fireline intensities, improved firefighter access, and enhanced fireline production rates.

 VMP Program Background


 The goal of the Vegetation Management Program is to reduce the chance of large, damaging wildfires by reducing fire hazards on wildland in California.  The Departments' intent is to realize the best 'mix' of natural resource benefits from these lands, consistent with environmental protection and landowner/steward objectives.
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For additional information please contact Megan Esfandiary at Megan.Esfandiary@fire.ca.gov or Bryan Giambrone at Bryan.Giambrone@fire.ca.gov.
Applications Period Open.
 
To apply for Volunteer Fire Capacity funding, visit VFC Solicitation.

You must have a Portal account through the eCivis Grants Portal webpage in order to apply for funding. Go to eCivis Portal Login to create your Portal account. This free account is where you will create a user profile and VFC application for submission. Please reference the Procedural Guide below with help navigating the application submission process. Please also download the 2024 VFC Budget Worksheet below to submit with your application.

2024 VFC Solicitation Letter (PDF)
2024 VFC Procedural Guide (PDF)
2024 VFC Budget Worksheet (PDF)
Submitting a Full Application - Demo Video


 State Government
 

Under what is known as the California Master Mutual Aid Agreement, CAL FIRE assists other fire departments within the State when local resources are depleted and Department resources are available, regardless of the type of disaster. In turn, CAL FIRE can access the local government fire departments through the same agreement for assistance in wildland fire suppression.
The Governor's Office of Emergency Services (OES) can also request CAL FIRE assistance with non-fire emergencies when the Governor has declared a State of Emergency. Such was the case during the Northridge earthquake of 1993, Napa earthquake of 2014, floods of 1997 and the Oroville Dam incident in 2017 when CAL FIRE provided flood-fighting crews and incident management and logistical support services.
When California is under siege with wildland fires across the state and resources are stretched thin, agreements with our local government cooperators through the California Fire Assistance Agreement (CFAA) and the California Military Department provide for California National Guard resources. The local government agencies provide personnel and equipment throughout the state and the National Guard provide Fire Crews, C-130 aircraft known as Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS), water dropping and medical rescue helicopters, support personnel, communications equipment, and other specialized resources.


 Local Government
 

Since the 1940s, local government entities such as cities, counties and districts have contracted with CAL FIRE to provide many forms of emergency services for their communities.
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Treatment Monitoring

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The proposed California Forest Carbon Plan aims to significantly increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and prescribed fire by 2030. This shift in vegetation management strategy and policy will require careful consideration to improve best management practices, minimize potential negative impacts, prioritize investments, and achieve statewide objectives. Therefore, it is crucial that implementation is accompanied by research and monitoring.

In 2018, the Joint Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program was established by the California Air Resources Board and FRAP to enhance smoke monitoring, support public outreach campaigns for prescribed fire, and characterize both regional air quality trends and project-scale air quality impacts from prescribed fire. This program builds on the near-term impacts of prescribed fire and evaluates long-term effects beyond the number of acres burned. It measures fuels, vegetation, and forest structure before and after prescribed fire projects across all land ownerships in California and tracks study sites for multiple years to assess impacts to carbon dynamics, tree mortality, and species diversity. The program is expanding to include more research partners and topics, such as climatology and burn window analyses. 

Prescribed Fire Monitoring 
The California Interagency prescribed fire monitoring program provides a scientific foundation to guide air and land management decision making on the use of prescribed fire. 


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Fire Perimeters | CAL FIRE
San Diego CAL FIRE UNIT_ID changed to SDU (the former code MVU is maintained in the UNIT_ID domains).  COMPLEX_INCNUM renamed to COMPLEX_ID and is in process of transitioning from local incident number to the complex IRWIN ID.  Perimeters managed in a complex in 2023 are added with the complex IRWIN ID.  Those previously added will transition to complex IRWIN IDs in a future update.


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Firep22_1 was released in April 2023. Three hundred five fires from the 2022 fire season were added to the database (1 from BIA, 8 from BLM, 176 from CAL FIRE, 49 from Contract Counties, 14 from LRA, 8 from NPS, 38 from USFS, and 11 from USFW). The 2021 Dotta (part of Beckwourth Complex), Greenhorn, and Hartman fire perimeters were added. Another 45 fires were added by USFW from 2015-2021. The 1988 Hessel fire was added in LNU. The 2019 Cave fire was replaced with a more detailed perimeter submitted by Santa Barbara County. The 2017 Hudson, 2017 Lake, 2017 Jones, 2017 "37", 2019 Tucker, and 2019 Refuge perimeters were replaced with imagery digitized perimeters from USFW. Attributes were updated for 32 records. One hundred ten perimeters were removed due to duplication or being completely contained outside of California state borders. The field IRWINID was added to provide a unique ID; fires before 2022 are lacking this attribution (with the exception of those added in this publication where possible). The following fires were identified as meeting our collection criteria, but are not included in this version and will hopefully be added in the next update: 2022 Cable (CAL FIRE, AEU), 2022 All American (BIA, CRA).
Firep21_2 was released in October 2022. The fields COMPLEX_NAME and COMPLEX_INCNUM were added to the dataset; historical complex fires were updated as such to the best of current ability. COMPLEX_NAME is for fires that were initially individual fires (with their own name) and then became part of a complex and thus were given a new name by the fire management agency.
2013 Fire Season Incident Archive | CAL FIRE
30,274 


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Shelton Fire

San Joaquin
5/30/2013

303 


 100% 

Olive Fire

Santa Barbara
5/28/2013

170 


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Magic Fire

Los Angeles
5/28/2013

149 


 100% 

White Fire

Santa Barbara
5/27/2013

1,984 


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General Fire

San Diego
5/26/2013

2,500 


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Homestead Fire

San Luis Obispo
5/25/2013

50 


 100% 

Smiley Fire

Riverside
5/25/2013

124 


 100% 

San Felipe Fire

San Diego
5/23/2013

2,650 


 100% 

Border Fire

San Diego
5/22/2013

100 


 100% 

Neal Fire

Butte
5/22/2013

150 


 100% 

Water Fire

Riverside
5/21/2013

90 


 100% 

Cottontail Fire

San Luis Obispo
5/20/2013

35 


 100% 

Cherry Fire

Riverside
5/20/2013

25 


 100% 

Lilly 2 Fire

Madera
5/19/2013

91 


 100% 

Lake Fire

Los Angeles
5/17/2013

712 


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54 Fire

Riverside
5/16/2013

40 


 100% 

Grand Fire

Kern, Ventura
5/15/2013

4,346 


 100% 

Lytle Fire

San Bernardino
5/13/2013

75 


 100% 

Ranger Fire

Madera
5/12/2013

15 


 100% 

Gorgonio Fire

Riverside
5/04/2013

650 


 100% 

Tres Pinos Fire

San Benito
5/03/2013

354 


 100% 

Springs Fire

Ventura
Wildfire | Terra
Extremely dry vegetation and windy conditions caused the fire to spread quickly. By June 30, the multi-agency incident information system, InciWeb, reported that it had ballooned to more than 114,000 acres and that it was about 45% contained.
NASA’s Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) instrument aboard the Terra satellite imaged some of the burned area on June 29. In this image, vegetation is shown in red and burned areas appear dark gray. It covers an area 20 by 30 miles (33 by 48 kilometers).
Efforts to contain the fire continue with 21 hand crews, 10 helicopters and dozens of fire engines deployed to the area. Smoke impacts to surrounding communities are being carefully monitored.
With its 14 spectral bands from the visible to the thermal infrared wavelength region and its high spatial resolution of about 50 to 300 feet (15 to 91 meters), ASTER images Earth to map and monitor the changing surface of our planet. It is one of five Earth-observing instruments launched Dec. 18, 1999, on Terra. The instrument was built by Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. A joint U.S./Japan science team is responsible for validation and calibration of the instrument and data products.
The broad spectral coverage and high spectral resolution of ASTER provides scientists in numerous disciplines with critical information for surface mapping and monitoring of dynamic conditions and temporal change. Example applications are monitoring glacial advances and retreats; monitoring potentially active volcanoes; identifying crop stress; determining cloud morphology and physical properties; wetlands evaluation; thermal pollution monitoring; coral reef degradation; surface temperature mapping of soils and geology; and measuring surface heat balance.
The U.S. science team is located at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The Terra mission is part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
This story originally appeared on https://www.jpl.nasa.gov
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Ian J. O’Neill / Jane J. LeeJet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.818-354-2649 / 818-354-0307ian.j.oneill@jpl.nasa.gov / jane.j.lee@jpl.nasa.govWritten by Esprit Smith, NASA’s Earth Science News Team
Prescribed Fire | CAL FIRE
Guidelines have been established by a collaborative group of state agencies, prescribed fire practitioners, burn bosses, and cultural fire practitioners. Enrollment in the Fund is achieved by completing the California Prescribed Fire Claims Fund Online Application. Claims and questions can be sent to liabiltyclaimsfund@fire.ca.gov 

What's a Prescribed Fire?
As a land management tool, prescribed fire is an efficient and cost-effective way to reduce fuels where physical and social conditions are conducive to its use.

California's Strategic Plan for the Expanding Use of Beneficial Fire


The California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force issued a Strategic Plan for Expanding the Use of Beneficial Fire to expand the use of prescribed fire and cultural burning to build forest and community resilience statewide – efforts critical to forest management and wildfire mitigation. 

Vegetation Management Program


A landowner cooperator program that focuses on the use of prescribed fire, and some mechanical means, for addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other resource management issues on State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands.  The VMP allows private landowners to enter into a contract with CAL FIRE to use prescribed fire to accomplish a combination of fire protection and resource management goals.  

Prescribed Fire Manual


Prescribed fire use is a key tool for CAL FIRE and its cooperators to use in reducing fuels at a landscape scale. This guidebook documents the VMP requirements, processes, and forms. In addition, it provides guidelines on how and where to apply the VMP process, addresses CEQA compliance and explains project documentation requirements. 

Fuels Reduction


CAL FIRE and our local grantees are removing overgrown vegetation through prescribed fire, tree thinning, pruning, chipping, and roadway clearance. These efforts create breaks that change fire behavior, reduce negative ecosystem impacts, and enable fire fighters to protect communities. 


 Resources for Collaboration
 

We can get more prescribed fire on the ground by cooperating with our partners (video). These resources are intended to help you connect with skilled partners to develop collaborative burns.
Partners to reach out to plan a collaborative burn in your unit:

California’s Prescribed Burn Associations
University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts
CAL FIRE’s Grantees
The Nature Conservancy Fire Staff:
 
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 Home Hardening
Address your home's vulnerabilities to better withstand wildfire.

Home hardening is the term used to describe vegetation management compliance and building materials used to resist the intrusion of flames or embers projected by a wildland fire. It can be applied to new construction or for retrofitting an older home. Home Hardening considers the relationship between your home and its exposure to nearby combustible features such as vegetation, vehicles, accessory buildings, or even miscellaneous structures like a fence. 

Protect Your Home from Wildfires
Protecting your home from wildfires involves taking specific steps to make it more resilient. Home hardening includes using fire-resistant building materials, adopting safe landscaping practices, and implementing preventative measures to reduce fire risk and enhance property safety.

Home Hardening Self-Assessment

Take the Home Hardening Self-Assessment to see how prepared your property is for wildfire. In less than 10 minutes, this self-assessment will evaluate your home’s vulnerability to wildfire. A detailed report will be provided with tailored recommendations customized for your home. See what actions you can take today and what steps can be done in the future to make your home more resilient to wildfire.
Home Hardening Self-Assessment

 

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Forest Stewardship | CAL FIRE
Some will be colder, some will be wetter or drier, there may be more storms, or more intense weather events. While no one knows exactly what will occur where, climate change is now well-acknowledged as a threat to our economy, environment, and health. 
In California, predicted effects include reduction in the Sierra snowpack, reduced water quantity and quality, sea level rise, coastal erosion, increases in infectious diseases and other health problems, and changes in natural ecosystems including forests.

How can we increase carbon sequestration in forests?
The management practices used to increase forest carbon sequestration are the same ones that promote good forest health. The goal is to encourage trees to grow and thrive, to get bigger faster, and to reduce the risk of wildfire. 
There are three main strategies for forest mitigation of climate change:
1. Conserve existing forests in a healthy condition through proper management,
2. Increase carbon sequestration by planting trees or other forest management techniques that increase biomass,
3. Increase the use of wood products and substitute wood for materials that require energy-intensive production. 

 More Information

Forest Carbon in the United States: Opportunities and Options for Private Lands by Wayburn et al.
International guidelines for conducting national greenhouse gas inventories by the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The portion on “Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses” (AFOLU) lays out forest methods and accounting procedures. 
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change
The Center for Clean Air Policy evaluates carbon gains from a broad range of alternative forest and agricultural policies in California with a useful bibliography. 
The Pacific Forest Trust, the Conservation Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and Trust for Public Land offer information on forests, carbon, and working forest conservation easements.


 Community Forestry
 

New Opportunities in Forestry
 
Community forests are common throughout the U.S. and world, but rare in California. This is in the process of changing, however, as a number of rural communities develop new and creative models to participate in their local forests. 
But what exactly is a community forest? That’s a good question and not easily answered. Scores of definitions exist.
Fire Perimeters | CAL FIRE
~2002: ≥10 acres timber, ≥50 acres brush, ≥300 acres grass, damages or destroys three or more residential or commercial structures (doesn’t include outbuildings, sheds, chicken coops, etc.), or results in loss of life.

 ~2008-present: ≥10 acres timber, ≥50 acres brush, ≥300 acres grass, damages or destroys three or more structures or does $300,000 worth of damage, or results in loss of life.

Collection criteria for all cooperating agencies:

All fires ≥ 10 acres

The current version’s updates:

Firep23_1 was released in May 2024. Two hundred eighty-four fires from the 2023 fire season were added to the database (21 from BLM, 102 from CAL FIRE, 72 from Contract Counties, 19 from LRA, 9 from NPS, 57 from USFS and 4 from USFW).  The 2020 Cottonwood fire, 2021 Lone Rock and Union fires, as well as the 2022 Lost Lake fire were added.  USFW submitted a higher accuracy perimeter to replace the 2022 River perimeter.  Additionally, 48 perimeters were digitized from an historical map included in a publication from Weeks, d. et al. The Utilization of El Dorado County Land. May 1934, Bulletin 572.  University of California, Berkeley.  Two thousand eighteen perimeters had attributes updated, the bulk of which had IRWIN IDs added. A duplicate 2020 Erbes perimeter was removed.  The following fires were identified as meeting our collection criteria but are not included in this version and will hopefully be added in the next update: Big Hill #2 (2023-CAHIA-001020).  
 
YEAR_ field changed to a short integer type.  San Diego CAL FIRE UNIT_ID changed to SDU (the former code MVU is maintained in the UNIT_ID domains).  COMPLEX_INCNUM renamed to COMPLEX_ID and is in process of transitioning from local incident number to the complex IRWIN ID.  Perimeters managed in a complex in 2023 are added with the complex IRWIN ID.  Those previously added will transition to complex IRWIN IDs in a future update.


 Update Lineage Details
 

Firep22_1 was released in April 2023.