Communities Make the Commitment to Living with Wildfire Through Firewise USA: A 2023 Recap

Published on May 20, 2024

In 2023, 329 new communities joined the Firewise USA program while over 2,200 existing sites put in 3 million hours of work to protect homes from wildfire.

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