Wildfire and Community Risk Reduction Division

Fire Prevention & Life Safety

There are time-tested ways to prevent and survive a fire. It’s not a question of luck. It’s a matter of practicing and planning ahead. There are methods to minimize the likelihood of a fire in your home. Please review our information on what you can do to prevent fires.

Fire Adapted Ashland

The entire community of Ashland is at high risk from wildfire. The goal of Fire Adapted Ashland is to help all of Ashland prepare for wildfire, including before, during, and after the fire. This work is never done, but we continue to progress by building new partnerships and strengthening existing relationships. Wildfire is everyone's fight.

Smokewise Ashland

Learn about the air quality index and more.

Weed Abatement

Grass fires and wildfires are ignited every year in and around Ashland, by people or by lightning. And whether it’s private property, community infrastructure or our watershed, we have a lot to lose when it comes to wildfires.

Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project

Learn about our important work for the benefit of people and forests.

Ashland Forestland Climate Change Adaptation Project

As climate change alters the forests of the west, the sudden increase of dead and downed trees mean an abundance of fuel creating the potential for fire behavior never previously seen. After the logging is done and the area is cleaned up, the project can become an opportunity for the forest, remaining Douglas-Firs may revive. Oak savannas may thrive in the additional sunlight. Other native species can be planted, improving the ability to use prescribed fire to treat the forests and prevent mass fire.

Ashland Wildfire Mitigation Project

Ashland Fire & Rescue and the City of Ashland were awarded a $3 million Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant as a part of its Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program. This grant aims to create wildfire-defensible space around 1,100 homes throughout the city. The objective of the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program is to reduce overall risk to the population and structures from future hazard events as well as reduce reliance on federal funding from future disasters.

Ashland's 2025 Community Wildfire Protection Plan

Summer Fire Season Information

Learn about fire hazard levels and their corresponding restrictions.