Join or Start a Neighborhood Fire Safe Council
Increase fire resilience around your home by organizing with your neighbors
Is there already a Neighborhood Fire Safe Council (NFSC) near you? Check the map.
If you live in one of the neighborhoods shown on the map, your local council can use your help. Please consider joining them! If there is no NFSC in your area, see “Start an NFSC” below.
With a NFSC, you can:
Talk to Your Neighbors
• Get to know your neighbors and find out who is doing what
• Recruit interested community members
Make Connections
• Access MCFSC’s resources and collaborate with other residents and stakeholders
• Pool knowledge and get others engaged
Create a Plan
• Identify goals and objectives
• Assess where you are now and where you want to be with wildfire safety
Implement the Plan
• Start with demonstration projects to see what’s possible
• Gain and maintain momentum toward making your entire neighborhood safer.
Start an NFSC
Neighborhood Fire Safe Councils (NFSCs) provide a foundation for wildfire preparedness in our communities. If there is not yet an NFSC where you live, we can help you start your own.
Benefits include:
Support from MCFSC staff in launching your NFSC, finding speakers, and helping get your initial projects going
Eligibility to apply for MCFSC Micro-Grants to fund your wildfire-preparedness projects
Information and networking opportunities through our newsletter and regular meetings for NFSC leadership – these meetings are a great source of ideas and inspiration from other NFSCs
Access to our highly discounted nonprofit bulk rates with DialMyCalls to start your own NFSC automated emergency alert system – a big improvement over manual phone trees
Access to nonprofit rates for services like Zoom accounts
Early information about and priority access to training and other opportunities such as free Community Chipper Days
The potential for MCFSC to be your fiscal sponsor to fundraise and apply for grants as a nonprofit
And … it does not cost anything. Any group organizing for wildfire preparedness in their community can be a Neighborhood Fire Safe Council. We appreciate it when participants in our affiliated neighborhood groups choose to become dues-paying MCFSC members in support of our work, but it is not required.