Wildfire Resilience Index is Now Live — Providing a New Interactive Tool to Support Communities and Landscapes Living with Wildfire

May 5, 2026 – The Wildfire Resilience Index launched as an open source, free, interactive tool designed to support communities and landscapes living with wildfire in 12 Western US states, British Columbia, and the Yukon Territory. Users can look up any census tract, county, congressional district and get a resilience score — broken down by eight socio-ecological domains and split into resistance and recovery components to see not just how resilient a place is, but why, and what to do about it. The index is designed to inform land management, policy planning, and community preparedness by supporting evidence-based decisions that enhance safety and ecosystem sustainability. The index offers flexible insights that communities can adapt to their unique needs. It highlights where resilience can be strengthened-whether through vegetation management, infrastructure planning, community preparedness, or other targeted actions.