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TABLE OF CONTENTS <br />Table of 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 lntegration ............................................................... 8 <br />3 Kittitas County Local Environment ........................................................................................ 9 <br />3.1.1 Overview ..................... _ ......... _ .................................................. _. .................... , ............................................ 9 <br />3.2 Demographics ................................................................................................................................................... 10 <br />3.2.1 Local Economy ................................................................................................................................... 13 <br />3.3 Critical Infrastructure ....................................................................................................................................... 13 <br />3.4 Terrain/Geomorphology ................................................................................................................................ 14 <br />3.5 Vegetation ........................................................................................................................................................... 15 <br />3.5.1 Fire Adapted Landscape ................................................................................................................ 15 <br />3.5.2 Climate and Temperature ............................................................................................................. 19 <br />3.6 Wild land Urban Interface ........................................................................................................ _. ..... _ ....... _ ......... 20 <br />3.6.1 History of Wild land Urban Interface Code in Kittitas County ........................................ , 20 <br />3.6.2 Wild land Urban Interface Risk in the West.. ........................................................................... 21 <br />3.6.3 Wild land 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 September 2018