2025 Firewise Community Risk Assessment

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2025 Firewise Community Risk Assessment - Upper Mark West

Thank you for filling out the FireWise Risk Assessment Survey. This is an important step in maintaining our FireWise Community Status and in helping us plan our goals as a FireWise Community.

This first section of questions will help us understand the status of Home Owners Insurance in our Watershed.

Email *

First Name

Last Name

Did you receive a discount on your Homeowners Insurance Policy because of our UMWW FireWise Recognition?

Yes

I did not request one

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What was the % of discount that you received?

1-4 %

5 - 9 %

10% or more

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Were there any changes to your Homeowners Insurance Policy in the last 3 years?

It was cancelled.

It was not renewed due to risk.

It was not renewed due to another circumstance.

No changes were made.

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Do you currently insure your home through the California FAIR Plan?

Yes

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Do you have an Auxillary Policy to enhance the California FAIR Plan?

Yes

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If you’re comfortable sharing the information, what is the name of your Home Owners Insurance Company

The next section of questions will help us engage with each other around common interests and help us design education and outreach programs for our watershed.

Would you attend a workshop or field trip on these topics (check all that apply)

Structural Hardening (check all that apply)

1. DIY Retrofitting for Fire Prevention

2. Insurance (IBHS) Standards that help you keep your homeowner’s insurance

3. Tour/Fieldtrip of hardened homes in the UMWW (presented by local fire fighter)

Other:

Defensible Space and the 0’-100’ Zone

4. Tour/Fieldtrip of resilient landscaping in the UMWW

5. Beautiful landscaping with drought and fire-resistant plants

Other:

Tending the Land Beyond the 100’
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6. Tour/Fieldtrip of forest stewardship in the UMWW

7. Oak Regeneration and Oak Woodland Restoration

8. Best Management Practices for Roads and Drainage

9. Managing Erosion including how to do Gully Stuffing (More info on Gully Stuffing, visit: https://caff.org/gully-stuffing-practice/)

10. How to apply Best Management Practices for thinning and limbing trees on your property (spacing, limbing up, disease management, preventing resprouts of bays, managing resprouts of oaks, madrones and maples)

11. Pile Burning

12. Prescribed Burning and Prescribed Burn Associations

13. Best Management Practices for Invasive Species (when and how to remove or reduce)

14. Tool training for vegetation management

15. Grazing: DIY, Sharing animals with neighbors or contracting for grazing with goats, sheep or cattle

16. CERT (Community Emergency Response Team) Training

Other:

Required

Evacuation and Personal Preparedness

17. Identifying site criteria and best practices for Shelter in Place (if it’s impossible to get out of sections of the UMWW)

18. Home Safety and Security (presented by the Sheriff’s Dept)

19. CPR Training (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation): emergency lifesaving procedure performed when the heart stops beating: online training? in-person group training?

20. CERT (Community Emergency Response Team Training: educate volunteers about disaster preparedness for hazards: fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, disaster medical operations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_qgofopN2s

21. Domestic and Large Animal Evacuation and Safety

22. Off-road driving safety

23. Creating a General Mobile Radio Service (GRMS) for neighborhood and emergency communication

24. Evacuation Planning

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Other:

Other Areas of interest

23. Identifying and supporting wild birds in the Myacamas Mountains

24. Raising honey bees (or contracting for) on your property

25. Raising chickens

Other:

Do you prefer getting information via (check all that apply):

Zoom workshops online?

In person field trips?

Written materials sent to you?

Workshop Comments (please write in any specifications you may have about the above potential workshops)

Are you interested in volunteering with the Fire Safe Council/Firewise Community Leadership?

Yes

Maybe

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