Boys & Girls Clubs and Wildfire Community Preparedness Day

Wildfire Community Preparedness Day was developed as the result of input from youth (from a research survey completed by NFPA®) who wanted to participate in wildfire safety project work on one specific day across the nation. 

This information and resources shared are designed to help clubs participate in a Wildfire Community Preparedness Day project to educate Boys & Girls Club members to take action to prevent and appropriately respond to wildfire.

What is Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, and why should you participate?

Motivate neighbors and community members to work together to make where they live a safer place from wildfire.

Resources

We have the tools to get you and your community off and running with your own project:

• Download our toolkit, which includes checklists, key steps, safety tips, and much more.
• Distribute our fact sheet (PDF) to let people know more about the event.
• Get guidelines for capturing images that tell your story (PDF).
• Build your Backpack Go-Kit (PDF)
• One of the criteria for becoming a Firewise USA® recognized site requires participating in an annual wildfire risk reduction project. Wildfire Community Preparedness Day is a great time to start. Contact your state liaison to begin a community wildfire risk assessment (PDF) to identify and guide your priorities and activities for Prep Day and throughout the year. 

Complete a community service project

Community service projects directly benefit the people, wildlife and neighborhoods where you live. Take part in projects to fulfill these requirements and make important contributions in your area to reduce wildfire risks or post-fire impacts like flooding and mudslides.

Resource

Community service project ideas

Remember you can, and you will, make a difference in your community. Check out the more than two dozen project ideas that can get you started.

Download the project ideas.

Complete a pet preparedness project

Take care of the animals

Household pet evacuation kit

This checklist will help you customize an evacuation kit for the pets in your family and ensure they’re ready to go if you need to evacuate during a wildfire. When building the kit, remember it needs to be a size and weight that can be easily loaded into a vehicle when evacuating quickly.

Download the kit.

Wildfire Preparedness for Horses

Preparing horses for a wildfire evacuation requires an extra level of planning, preparedness and practice. Building an evacuation kit for each horse, and having a plan for them that’s been practiced, increases the potential your horse(s) will be able to leave when you do.

Download the checklist.

Just as humans prepare, it’s important to have household pets and horses ready year-round for a potential wildfire evacuation. Preparing animals requires an extra level of planning, preparedness and practice.