BRIC Phase 1 - provide comprehensive wildfire risk reduction project development and environmental compliance documentation for roadside fuel reduction work along approximately 52 miles of County-maintained roads

This work is funded by Phase 1 of a FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grant, which supports early-stage project development and permitting for community wildfire risk reduction. Because future funding for later BRIC phases is uncertain, this Phase grant 1 is focused on advancing “shovel-ready” implementation status for priority roadside fuel reduction projects that could proceed under BRIC or alternative local, state, or federal funding sources.

The six original BRIC Phase 1 project areas include sensitive habitats and rural development patterns where critical evacuation corridors run alongside areas subject to additional regulatory requirements, such as fish-bearing streams and sandhills habitat. This effort will develop roadside fuel reduction treatment descriptions that include measures to avoid, minimize, and mitigate impacts on environmental, historic, and cultural resources and that can be applied or adapted to future projects in other unincorporated areas with similar resource and development constraints.