CalFire's Ready for Wildfire website is a great resource for residents to learn about how to prepare for and prevent wildfires, including ways to prepare your family, emergency supply kit ideas, evacuation guides, and more.
Also includes informational videos and a Spanish informational page.
After Wildfire: A Guide for California Communities is an interagency response to requests from fire‐affected communities for a single, consolidated resource that can help them recover from a wildfire and plan for post‐wildfire hazards. California has experienced numerous catastrophic wildfires, many of which were made more destructive by the intense flooding and debris flows that followed during subsequent rainfall. In the wake of these events, individuals and communities seeking help often struggle to navigate the complex requirements of the many state and federal response authorities.
This After Wildfire guide was a collaborative effort by the California Silver Jackets Team. Silver Jackets is an interagency partnership program encouraging federal, state, local, and tribal agencies to work together to find solutions for complex flood risk management issues.
The Flood After Fire (FAF) Toolkit was developed by the California Silver Jackets Team to provide tools, methods, and other resources to help assess the risks associated with flooding and debris flow after a fire. It also includes basic checklists and generalized procedures, written to encourage an interdisciplinary response to post-fire modeling and analysis.
What is in the Toolkit?
Resources by fire timeline and response
GIS preparedness products and field applications
Hydrology and hydrology impacts and response
Event data collection guidelines
Watershed model setup
Quick reference to commonly used models and data.
Resources for less experienced technical staff
Typical agency roles under wildfire response
Who is this Toolkit for?
GIS specialists
Hydrologists
Hydraulic engineers
Geohazard specialists
Geologists
Mitigation planners
Soil scientists
Wildfire support staff such as emergency managers
For more information, please contact Brent Fetting at Brenton.J.Fetting@usace.army.mil
This toolkit was used for outreach in Santa Barbara, Ventura-Oxnard, and Redding in 2019. The FEMA toolkit includes key messages, pitch emails, press releases, talking points, survivor stories, earned media outreach best practices, social media, and a media list.
The Summer 2018 California Wildfires Helping Handbook gathers in up-to-date, practical information on many subjects, including, among others, housing, government benefits, insurance, FEMA assistance, replacement of lost documents and fraud prevention. It was developed for individuals and small businesses affected by the summer 2018 fires in Northern California.
A printer-friendly PDF is available here.
Learn about the risk of flooding after fire, including how debris flows occur and the hazards of a debris flows.
Learn how intense rainfall causes debris flows and flooding, and preventative measures to be taken for protection of life and property.