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<br /> <br /> <br />Community Wildfire Protection Plan 21 September 2018 <br />International Wildland Urban Interface Code (IWUIC) as it pertains to future construction <br />development in the Kittitas County and the second distinction as part of the holistic strategy brought <br />forth by the National Cohesive Strategy’s three goals: resilient landscapes, fire adapted communities <br />and safe and effective wildfire response. <br />3.6.2 Wildland Urban Interface Risk in the West <br />According to the Headwaters Economic WUI snapshot report (2018), Kittitas County was in the 85th <br />and 89th percentile of existing WUI risk (amount of forested land where homes have already been <br />built next to public lands), and future WUI risk (the area of undeveloped, forested private land <br />bordering fire-prone public lands) in the West (there are a total of 413 western counties and the <br />higher the percentile (100th percentile being the highest) the higher the risk) in 2010. Kittitas County <br />is in the 44th percentile in Washington State when ranked by existing risk and 69th percentile for <br />future potential risk according 2010 data. While home construction is not the only contributor to the <br />rising cost of fighting fires, it is an important factor and one that is expected to rise with continued <br />development, particularly in the absence of well thought-out land use planning. A warming climate <br />will exacerbate the costs even further continuing the established risk rankings. <br />3.6.3 Wildland Urban Interface Planning Areas <br />The Kittitas County CWPP is multi-jurisdictional and addresses all lands and all ownership within the <br />boundaries of the plan area. The Swauk-Liberty Planning area overlaps the Swauk Basin Wildfire <br />Protection Plan last updated in January 2005. <br />In all nine identified sub regions, the 1.5-mile WUI boundary follows the CWPP planning area <br />boundary. For the purposes of this CWPP, the WUI boundary and the CWPP planning area are a <br />similar geographical region; however, the planning boundaries are more general and include private <br />property that may be isolated from the WUI boundary. The Kittitas County WUI boundary is <br />approximately 1,018 square miles and covers 651,795 acres. <br />Table 1 <br />Wildland Urban Interface Planning Area Fire Coverage <br />WUI Planning Area Name Acres Fire District Coverage <br />Eastern Kittitas County 109,854 BLM, Yakima Training Center, DNR, Vantage Fire Department, <br />Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue <br />Kittitas Valley Upland 150,789 DNR, Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue, USFS <br />Swauk-Liberty 75,500 DNR, Kittitas County Fire District No. 7, USFS <br />Manastash-Taneum 113,098 DNR, Kittitas Valley Fire & Rescue, USFS <br />Teanaway 22,332 Kittitas County Fire District No. 7, DNR <br />North Lake Cle Elum 23,170 Kittitas County Fire District No. 6, DNR, USFS