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Fire Risk Assessment <br />Intro <br />As part of the Wildland Urban Interface Community Project that your community <br />was a pilot for, an assessment of homes as fire prone property was completed by a <br />contractor in the fall of 2000. Here is what we found out about your <br />community... <br />1. House -by -house survey of homes looking at site hazards such as flammable <br />trees & other materials too close to the house. Also looked at the structure for <br />fireprone materials and design. (sample of survey sheet as handout) <br />2. This survey is available to your community as: <br />a. Individual home assessment sheets <br />b. Database of summary from the assessment sheets <br />c. GIS point files from the database <br />d. Analysis maps <br />Survey Results <br />1. Map of homes characterized by low, moderate, high or extreme risk (handout <br />map 1. <br />2. Frequency count shows 405 homes at high risk and 35 homes at extreme risk <br />in Lino Lakes. <br />3. Further analysis shows concentrations of high and extreme risk homes in the <br />following areas (Handout map 2 & 3): <br />a. Evergreen Trail <br />b. Knoll Drive <br />c. Sherwood Lane <br />d. Red Maple Lane <br />e. Bald Eagle Lake <br />What does this mean? - -- let's look at one example neighborhood — Lino Lakes — <br />Evergreen <br />The problems & Solutions <br />•Narrow access road & driveways: <br />—Widen shoulders & road bed <br />•Contiguous pine bordered by open land: <br />— Create fire breaks <br />•Unthinned pine: <br />—Thin & prune pine <br />•Inadequate clearances around homes: <br />—Remove hazardous trees & materials <br />•Fire prone building materials: <br />— Replace with less flammable materials during renovations <br />•Dead end road: <br />— Create emergency exit road <br />