Crowfoot Road Project (formerly Rural Community Wildfire Mitigation Project)

Location: Rural communities along Crowfoot Road between Highway 62 and Butte Falls Highway
Partners: FEMA, Office of Emergency Management, Fire District 3, Oregon Department of Forestry, Rogue Basin Partnership

The Crowfoot Road Project focuses on reducing wildfire risk for rural communities in a high-priority area between Shady Cove and the Rogue-Siskiyou National Forest. Through strategic fuel reduction, defensible space creation, and ignition-resistant home retrofits, we aim to improve community safety and wildfire resilience.

Project Goals:

• Reduce hazardous fuels within two miles of homes
• Create defensible space around structures
• Assist landowners in retrofitting homes using fire-resistant construction methods

Progress So Far:

Initial home and property assessments are complete with approximately 90% of interested property owners, and we are moving into designing prescriptions and budgeting for implementation. Michael Skandalis (Forest Conservation Technician) has been working closely with Fire District 3 (our project partner) to complete a digital survey tool that will allow us to efficiently assess risk and problem areas on homes, defensible space, and fuels conditions on properties, and automatically generate reports for both the Office of Emergency Management and the landowner. Meghan Montgomery and Michael Skandalis are reviewing data collected in initial home assessments this spring, and revisiting properties as necessary to complete forest inventories for fuels reduction treatments.

Contact us to learn more about this project and to find out if your property is located within an area eligible for our grant-funded assistance!