Table of Contents

Report

• Executive Summary
• 1.0 Introduction
  • 1.1 Project Background
  • 1.2 Communities Assessed
  • 1.3 Communities Not Assessed
• 2.0 Methodology
  • 2.1 Project Team
  • 2.2 Base Map Data Collection
  • 2.3 Community Risk/Hazard Assessment
  • 2.4 Interviews with Fire Personnel
  • 2.5 Recommendation Development
• 3.0 Description of the Municipality
  • 3.1 Demographics, location, topography, and climatic data
  • 3.2 Wildfire History
  • 3.3 Natural Resources and Critical Features Potentially at Risk
  • 3.4 Previous Fire Hazard Reduction Projects
• 4.0 Municipality-Wide Assessment Results
  • 4.1 Municipality-wide Risk and Hazard Assessment Overview
  • 4.2 Municipality-wide Recommendations
• 5.0 Carson City
  • 5.1 Risk and Hazard Assessment
  • 5.2 Risk and Hazard Reduction Recommendations, Roles, and Responsibilities
  • 5.3 Summary of Recommendations
• 6.0 Carson Indian Colony
  • 6.1 Risk and Hazard Assessment
  • 6.2 Risk and Hazard Reduction Recommendations, Roles, and Responsibilities
  • 6.3 Summary of Recommendations
• 7.0 Clear Creek
  • 7.1 Risk and Hazard Assessment
  • 7.2 Risk and Hazard Reduction Recommendations, Roles, and Responsibilities
  • 7.3 Summary of Recommendations
• 8.0 Stewart
  • 8.1 Risk and Hazard Assessment
  • 8.2 Risk and Hazard Reduction Recommendations, Roles, and Responsibilities
  • 8.3 Summary of Recommendations
• 9.0 Carson City Risk/Hazard Assessment Conclusions
• 10.0 References

Appendices

• Appendix A - Glossary of Terms Used in Wildfire Management and Scientific Plant Names
• Appendix B - Community Wildfire Assessment Rating System
• Appendix C - Photographs of Representative Fuel Types in Carson City Communities
• Appendix D - List of Persons Contacted
• Appendix E - Russian Knapweed Fact Sheets
• Appendix F - Homeowner Guidelines

Tables

• Table 1-1 Community Risk and Hazard Assessment Results. ii
• Table 2-1 Primary Datasets and Sources Utilized in the Carson City Consolidated Municipality Wildfire Risk/Hazard Assessment.3
• Table 2-2 Hazard Rating Point System Utilized in the Nevada Community Wildfire Risk Assessment Project3
• Table 3-1 Land Management Acreage within the Carson City Consolidated Municipality
• Table 3-2 Summary of Available Fire History Data 1980-2003
• Table 3-3 At-Risk Historical Places in the Carson City Consolidated Municipality
• Table 3-4 Federal and State Listed Flora and Fauna At Risk in the Carson City Consolidated Municipality
• Table 4-1 Assessment Results Summary
• Table 4-2 Carson City Fire Department Wildfire Resources and Equipment Available for First-Alarm Response to a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire
• Table 4-3 Carson City Consolidated Municipality Wildfire Resources, Cooperating Partners, and Equipment Available for Initial Attack Response to a Wildland-Urban Interface Fire (during a high hazard day)3
• Table 5-1 Carson City Community Risk/Hazard Reduction Priority Recommendations
• Table 5-2 Carson City Wildfire Hazard Rating Summary
• Table 6-1 Carson Indian Colony Risk/Hazard Reduction Priority Recommendations
• Table 6-2 Carson Indian Colony Wildfire Hazard Rating Summary
• Table 7-1 Clear Creek Risk/Hazard Reduction Priority Recommendations
• Table 7-2 Clear Creek Wildfire Hazard Rating Summary
• Table 8-1 Stewart Risk/Hazard Reduction Priority Recommendations
• Table 8-2 Stewart Colony Wildfire Hazard Rating Summary
• Table 9-1 Community Proposed Fuel Reduction/Mitigation Projects and Landowners and/or Agencies Involved

Figures

Figure 3-1 Community and Land Ownership, Carson City Consolidated Municipality small | large | x-large
Figure 3-2 Fire History, and Critical Features Potentially At-Risk, Carson City Consolidated Municipality small | large | x-large
Figure 3-3 Carson City Municipality Completed Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Mitigation Projects small | large | x-large
Figure 5-1 Carson City Community Suppression Resources, Critical Features, Fire History, and Proposed/Planned Mitigation Projects small | large | x-large
Figure 5-2 Carson City Community Classification of Fuel Hazard small | large | x-large
Figure 5-4 BLM Carson City Field Office and Carson City Fire Department Scheduled Fire Mitigation Projects for the Pinyon Hills Area small | large | x-large
Figure 5-5 BLM Carson City Field Office and Carson City Fire Department Scheduled Fire Mitigation Projects for the Mexican Dam Area small | large | x-large
Figure 6-1 Carson Indian Colony Fire History small | large | x-large
Figure 6-2 Carson Indian Colony Classification of Fuel Hazard small | large | x-large
Figure 7-1 Clear Creek Fire History and Proposed/Planned Mitigation Projects small | large | x-large
Figure 7-2 Clear Creek Classification of Fuel Hazard small | large | x-large
Figure 7-4 Clear Creek Planned Fire Mitigation Projects small | large | x-large
Figure 8-1 Community of Stewart3 small | large | x-large