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Fighting Fire with Incentives in San Diego County: Wildfire Mitigation Certificate Pilot Project

City: San Diego
Project Year: 2020
Project Status: Winner
Category: Fire
Partner: County of San Diego Office of Emergency Services


Project Summary:

As climate change increases wildfire risks across California, individual homeowners can reduce community wildfire risk by creating defensible spaces and hardening their properties to make them less flammable. With support from the California Resilience Challenge, the San Diego County Office Office of Emergency Services is partnering with United Policyholders and local firefighters to develop a pilot mitigation certificate program to incentivize homeowners to implement fire-reduction strategies.



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The Mitigation Certificate Pilot Project was intended to be a demonstrative project of a viable model that could be scaled to suit the wildfire mitigation needs of any community in California by improving resiliency, reducing risk, and rewarding mitigation in cooperation with insurers, wildfire risk mitigation organizations, and firefighting agencies.

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