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TABLE OF CONTENTS <br />Tableof Contents...............................................................................................................................i <br />Abbreviations.................................................................................................................................... iv <br />1 Introduction................................................................................................................................1 <br />1.1 Purpose...................................................................................................................................................................2 <br />1.2 Mission....................................................................................................................................................................2 <br />2 History of the Kittitas County Community Wildfire Protection Plan ............................4 <br />2.1 Recent Federal Initiatives and Legislation.................................................................................................4 <br />2.2 Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition...........................................................................................5 <br />2.3 The Formation of the Kittitas CWPP Subcommittee..............................................................................6 <br />2.4 Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update Process..........................................................................6 <br />2.5 Additional State and Federal CWPP Guidelines Integration...............................................................8 <br />3 Kittitas County Local Environment........................................................................................9 <br />3.1.1 Overview.................................................................................................................................................9 <br />3.2 <br />Demographics...................................................................................................................................................10 <br />3.2.1 Local Economy...................................................................................................................................13 <br />3.3 <br />Critical Infrastructure.......................................................................................................................................13 <br />3.4 <br />Terrain/Geomorphology................................................................................................................................14 <br />3.5 <br />Vegetation...........................................................................................................................................................15 <br />3.5.1 Fire Adapted Landscape................................................................................................................15 <br />3.5.2 Climate and Temperature.............................................................................................................19 <br />3.6 <br />Wildland Urban Interface..............................................................................................................................20 <br />3.6.1 History of Wildland Urban Interface Code in Kittitas County ......................................... <br />20 <br />3.6.2 Wildland Urban Interface Risk in the West.............................................................................21 <br />3.6.3 Wildland Urban Interface Planning Areas...............................................................................21 <br />4 Wildfire in Kittitas County....................................................................................................24 <br />4.1.1 Fire History ..........................................................................................................................................24 <br />4.1.2 Change in Fire Regimes in Kittitas County.............................................................................29 <br />4.2 Risk Assessment Evaluation Tools............................................................................................................. 31 <br />4.2.1 Landscape Risk Assessments.......................................................................................................31 <br />4.2.2 Wildfire Simulation and Mapping..............................................................................................32 <br />4.2.3 Combining Landscape Risk and Model Simulation............................................................. 33 <br />Community Wildfire Protection Plan i September 2018 <br />