Placer County uses Vibrant Planet to protect people, property, and ecosystems across 650,000 forested acres
Key Facts:
- Placer County is home to California's largest number of habitable structures in wildfire-prone areas
- They launched a Regional Forest Health program to protect lives, property, and natural resources from wildfire
- 56% of the county is forested, and 75% of its communities are within or adjacent to forest lands
- The cost to treat all 650,000 acres would surpass $1.6 billion
- Placer County uses Vibrant Planet to work across public and private land ownership to determine the most strategic land treatments
- The platform determined 31 treatments across 20,000 acres in Northern California that would address the highest wildfire hazard and protect the community's most at-risk critical assets
Read about our earlier work together in this case study
Read the news release
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