Introduction to Wildfire Protection Planning

Wildfire Protection Planning can be used to analyze historical wildfire patterns, evaluate their effects on structures, and prioritize mitigation efforts that minimize wildfire impacts and safeguard people and property.

Wildland fires are a formidable natural hazard that can be difficult to prevent and challenging to control. The rising incidence and intensity of wildfires, coupled with expanding development in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), underscore the necessity for communities to proactively prepare for wildfire hazards.

To mitigate the impact of wildfires, many communities will formally assess wildfire risk and identify effective mitigation activities. Communities with high wildfire risk may develop a formal Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) that is designed to reduce wildfire risks and enhance the safety of residents, properties, and natural resources in areas prone to wildfires. Maps are a major component of these standard reports, and spatial analysis is required to understand risk and identify mitigation activities.

Deploy the solution

This solution can be deployed in your ArcGIS organization.

Deploy the solution

See Deploying a solution for more information.

Requirements

Wildfire Protection Planning requires the following apps:

• ArcGIS Online
• ArcGIS Pro 3.5 or later

Information products

Wildfire Protection Planning includes the following information products:

Item	Description	Minimum user type
Wildfire Protection Planning	An ArcGIS Pro project used by GIS analysts to assess wildfire risk, identify defensible spaces, and plan mitigation efforts	Creator ArcGIS Image Analyst add-on
Wildfire Mitigation Planner	An ArcGIS Experience Builder app used by firefighters to prioritize wildfire mitigation areas, communicate their effectiveness, and enhance planning efforts	Contributor

When you deploy this solution in your ArcGIS organization, you also get a solution item that organizes the key information products and summarizes all the ArcGIS items (applications, forms, projects, maps, feature layers, feature layer views, and so on) included with the solution. The solution item also illustrates any dependencies items have on each other.

Release notes

The following are the release notes:

Version	Description
1.1 (Nov 2025)	The Wildfire Mitigation Planner Experience Builder app and its dependent items have been updated to allow editing only on the WildfireMitigationActivities layer. The Wildfire Protection Planning ArcGIS Pro project now includes the following enhancements: The task items have been simplified to improve parts of the existing workflow. The Building Footprints layer schema has been updated to include building information. The Structures at Risk layer has been renamed to Structures in WUI Zones. The Area of Interest layer has been renamed to Location and Community Authority and is now used to inform rather than define analytical areas of interest for historical wildfires and defensible space workflows. The defensible space ranking has been updated to percentage of area rather than square footage. Symbology has been updated and a project style has been included for easier visualization of user-produced analytical outputs.
1.0 (Jul 2025)	First release of Wildfire Protection Planning