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Partner Spotlight: Placer County

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Placer County uses Vibrant Planet to protect people, property, and ecosystems across 650,000 forested acres


Key Facts: 

  • Placer County is home to California's largest number of habitable structures in wildfire-prone areas
  • They launched a Regional Forest Health program to protect lives, property, and natural resources from wildfire
  • 56% of the county is forested, and 75% of its communities are within or adjacent to forest lands
  • The cost to treat all 650,000 acres would surpass $1.6 billion
  • Placer County uses Vibrant Planet to work across public and private land ownership to determine the most strategic land treatments
  • The platform determined 31 treatments across 20,000 acres in Northern California that would address the highest wildfire hazard and protect the community's most at-risk critical assets


Read about our earlier work together in this case study

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