The Community Wildfire Resilience Workgroup, convened in partnership with Resources Legacy Fund, brings together leaders across wildfire science, land use, insurance, finance, and community implementation to advance a coordinated, long-term approach to reducing California’s growing wildfire risk to homes, infrastructure, and other parts of the built environment — and to addressing the impacts on our economy, insurance markets, and public budgets.
Why this workgroup — and why now?
Recent years have served as a stark reminder that wildfire risk exists in the built environment and local economies across the state —where people live, work, and rely on stable insurance markets and public services. While the state has made meaningful progress on landscape resilience through more than $5.6B in investment between 2015 and 2023 and the leadership of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Taskforce, there is still a missing piece: a coordinated approach to reducing risk in and around the built environment and local economies, where communities are most exposed to loss.
This workgroup brings together cross-sector perspectives to advance a cohesive, practitioner-informed agenda that equips decision-makers with practical guidance for reducing wildfire risk in the built environment.
What we’re advancing in 2026
Finance: Advancing capital pathways that support sustained wildfire risk reductions— including home hardening and neighborhood-level resilience measures.
Data, Mapping, and Modeling: Improving state policy maker understanding of existing wildfire datasets, identifying critical gaps, and improving decision-support tools that enable risk-informed planning, investment, and insurance decisions.
Policy Playbook: Creating a policy playbook for California’s next Governor to maps a vision and set of recommended actions the state can take to improve preparedness and resilience to minimize damage from wildfire.
The latest Wildfire Resilience news from CA FWD:
From Homes to Markets: A Legislative Briefing on Wildfire Risk in California’s Built Environment and Economy
CA FWD and Resources Legacy Fund convened legislative staff at the State Capitol for a briefing titled From Homes to Markets: Wildfire Risk in the Built Environment and Economy.
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Setting the Course for 2026: Insights from California’s Community Wildfire Expert Retreat
CA FWD convened a cross-sector group of experts in Guerneville for a two-day retreat. Participants brought deep experience across wildfire science, land use, insurance, public finance, economic development, and more.
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Preparing for Wildfire by Protecting What Matters: Reducing Community Risk and Improving Economic Outcomes
The policy brief summarizes insights from a workgroup of subject matter experts CA FWD convened in spring 2025 to assess California’s current policy and regulatory landscape. Workgroup members brought expertise across the built environment, planning, finance, and insurance. The report also incorporates insights from CA FWD’s Wildfire Policy Forum held in May 2025, along with targeted expert interviews.
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From Crisis to Strategy: CA FWD Convenes Leaders on Wildfire Policy Solutions
The Wildfire Policy Forum addressed how we support communities to rebuild and meaningfully reduce future climate risk by rebuilding smarter.
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