A Three-Year Action Plan is required by Firewise USA^® as a component of your initial Firewise Community recognition and is required to be renewed every three (3) years. Most importantly, the Three-Year Action Plan is your community’s guiding document on what you want to focus on accomplishing each year on education, home hardening, fuel reduction and evacuation planning and wildfire preparedness.

• • • How To-Write Successful Action Plan
    •  CAL FIRE Required Three-Year-Action Plan Form 
    • SAMPLE Three-year action plan 6-14-25 
    • Placer Co Action Plan ideas

Pro tips:

1. Action Plan Goals MUST address all recommendations in the Assessment. Here are some examples of paired Assessments and Action Plans. They show how they fit together. Assessment recommendations are more general. Action Plan Goals have more detail. 
2. Action goals must show progression over time. Don't show the same thing each year for every goal. Build upon the last year. Example: Year 1 - Encourage residents to improve and maintain defensible space - emphasize ladder fuels. Year 2 - Encourage residents to continue to improve and maintain defensible space - emphasize increasing spacing between shrubs and trees. 

EXAMPLES OF PAIRED ASSESSMENTS AND ACTION PLANS

Rural community area with large parcels.

• NewSchool_Tobacco FirewiseCommAssess_2025_share
• 11_28_25 New School Tobacco Action-Plan_share

Community in Grass Valley, with mostly smaller parcels.

• AltaHillFWC_Assessment_2025_share
• AltaHillFWC_ActionPlan _2025_share

Nevada City Community, co-housing with common areas.

• Red Bud FirewiseCommAssessment_2025_share
• 12_9_25_Redbud Action Plan_share