Module 1: Introduction and Overview

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• Establish a historical context of wildfires associated with home destruction
• Establish an ecological context of wildland fire occurrence
• Appropriately define the WU fire problem to guide an effective approach for preventing WU fire disasters

Module 2: Wildland-Urban Fire Characteristics

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• Show the residential patterns resulting from extreme wildland-urban (WU) fire conditions
• Describe how WU fire disasters occur
• Discuss the implications of how home destruction occurs and the opportunities for effective WU mitigation

Module 3: Home Ignition and the Home Ignition Zone (HIZ)

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• Understand the basic fire science of how home ignitions can occur
• Given an understanding of ignition, fire, and heat transfer, assess home ignition potential

Module 4: Preparing for the HIZ Assessment

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• Organize the HIZ to systematically evaluate structure vulnerabilities
• Learn about how home ignitions occur from actual examples

Module 5: Conducting the HIZ Assessment

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• Examine structures to identify and assess wildfire ignition vulnerabilities
• Develop recommendations for mitigating ignition vulnerabilities and reducing ignition potential during extreme wildfires

Module 6: The Benefits of Ignition-Resistant Structures

Upon completion of this module participants should be able to:

• • Discuss benefits due to ignition-resistant homes for fire protection, life safety, wildfire suppression costs, and proactive fire management