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<br /> <br /> <br />Community Wildfire Protection Plan i September 2018 <br />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 Integration............................................................... 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 Wildland Urban Interface .............................................................................................................................. 20 <br />3.6.1 History of Wildland Urban Interface Code in Kittitas County ......................................... 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 ............................................................................. 30 <br />4.2 Risk Assessment Evaluation Tools ............................................................................................................. 32 <br />4.2.1 Landscape Risk Assessments ....................................................................................................... 32 <br />4.2.2 Wildfire Simulation and Mapping .............................................................................................. 33 <br />4.2.3 Combining Landscape Risk and Model Simulation ............................................................. 34