Mississippi Land Conservation Assistance Network

By: Southeastern Goals Collective Solutions

Wildland fire management in the Southeastern United States is complex and multi-faceted. The significant threat posed by unplanned or undesirable fires threatens the lives and well-being of emergency responders and the public, and damages or destroys homes, property, and other values-at-risk. Although the Southeastern region includes just thirteen states, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands, it leads the nation in the number of annual wildland fire ignitions, with an average of 41,500 unplanned ignitions burning a total of 1.9 million acres every year (NICC 2012).

 

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