CWPP Introductory Meetings: 6/2 & 6/9

CAL FIRE San Mateo—Santa Cruz Unit and the Resource Conservation Districts of San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties invite you to participate in developing the Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for San Mateo and Santa Cruz Counties. Meetings on June 2 and June 9 will introduce the CWPP process and explain how you can contribute your unique local knowledge to this collaborative community-based plan.

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San Mateo County Meeting
Tuesday June 2nd at 7:00 p.m.
Coastside Fire Protection District (Click here for map)
1191 Main Street
Half Moon Bay, CA

Santa Cruz County Meeting
Tuesday June 9th at 7:00 p.m.
Zayante Fire Protection District (Click here for map)
7700 East Zayante Road
Felton, CA

Please email questions or comments to:
wildfireplan [at] gmail [dot] com

Headwaters Economics Report

A recent study conducted by Headwaters Economics ranked Santa Cruz County 14th and San Mateo County 23rd in the state for fire risk amongst the 58 counties of California. This study looked at 413 counties within 11 western states and ranked Santa Cruz County 9th for percentage of wildland urban interface (WUI) with homes (58%). Amongst counties in the western states ranked by number of homes located within the wildland interface, Santa Cruz ranked 12th with 16,266 homes and San Mateo County ranked 21st with 11,687 homes.   

An aerial view of Santa Cruz County and rural San Mateo County clearly illustrates this as housing development is barely visible beneath dense forest canopy. 

County of San Mateo:

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County of Santa Cruz:

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