What is the Service fire prevention program?
In this section you will find guidelines for analyzing, planning, implementing, and enforcing an effective fire prevention program that is within the scope of a broader wildland fire outreach program and our outreach strategies. Our Fire Management Handbook provides specific guidance relative to prevention planning. Prevention is outreach and other actions to reduce unwanted wildland fires. Unwanted wildland fires include all human-caused fires and those naturally-ignited wildland fires that occur outside the range of prescriptive criteria outlined in approved fire management plans. A. Prevention Goals. (1) Reduce the likelihood of both human-caused and unwanted naturally-ignited wildland fire ignitions that could result in unacceptable loss. (2) Decrease the frequency of human-caused fires. (3) Reduce emergency suppression costs. (4) Reduce fire size and intensity by developing programs such as fuels reduction/modification. (5) Establish cost-effective prevention programs at the natio
