SoCo Adapts: Wildfire Resiliency Grants

SoCo Adapts is a federal and state-funded program dedicated to helping property owners become more resilient to wildfires in Sonoma County, we offer community education and free wildfire risk assessments focused on:

• Home Hardening and Defensible Space
• Large-scale Vegetation Management

Awarded Grants

Wildfire Resilient Communities (also known as "BRIC")

Permit Sonoma was awarded FEMA's Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant program in December 2020 to fund the Wildfire Resilient Communities (WRC) project, which has also been referred to as the BRIC Project. The Wildfire Resilient Communities project will complement and scale up the projects, capabilities, and systems currently being developed by Permit Sonoma staff through the Wildfire Adapted Sonoma County program and the Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project. This project will simultaneously implement mitigation projects in built and natural environments across three specific project areas to reduce the risk and potential impact of devastating wildfires.

Hazardous Fuels Reduction 

The goal of the Sonoma County Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project (HFR) is to protect the lives and property of Sonoma County residents while improving forest health and wildfire resilience in the county’s wildland areas by removing hazardous fuels on private parcels and road systems in the county.

Wildfire Adapted Sonoma County

The Wildfire Adapted Project (WA 1 and WA 2) helps residents within specified high-risk project areas understand how to create defensible space and harden homes and structures against wildfire. Each parcel in the project areas will receive a vegetation management assessment and can opt in to receive a structure hardening assessment. After inspection, property owners may be able to apply for incentives to help implement measures recommended by our Fire Prevention Specialists.