Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Alameda County (CWPP)

Diablo Firesafe Council in conjunction with the Alameda County Association of Fire Chiefs, Hills Emergency Forum, and Stakeholder Committee Members completed a 2025 update to the Alameda County Community Wildfire Protection Plan. It was approved by the Alameda County Board of Supervisors in December 2025 and published January 2026.

This update was made possible by a generous grant from CAL FIRE for our Partners in Wildfire Prevention in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties work plan.

The Planning Process

The CWPP planning process was delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and an extension for completing the update was granted by CAL FIRE with an expectation that the CWPP update would now be coordinated with the RPP update.

As part of the CWPP update process, DFSC conducted extensive outreach to nearly 600 individual stakeholders representing a comprehensive and deliberately diverse group of representatives of many kinds of entities throughout the county. Outreach was conducted by 1:1 personal emails, 1:1 personal phonecalls and in-person meetings. As part of the outreach for this work, DFSC participated in over 30 presentations delivered to organizations throughout the county. DFSC created an online submission form with the 2015 CWPP fully accessible on our organizational website where stakeholders were invited to submit ideas for updates to the current plan or additions to it.

DFSC hosted one in-person/virtual stakeholder meeting and two additional virtual stakeholder meetings in 2024 and 2025. The meetings addressed stakeholders for Alameda County CWPP and the Contra Costa and Alameda Counties Regional Priority Plan. See these meetings below.

RPP / CWPP #2 was held on December 5th, 2024.

See slides.