Wildfire Preparedness

The City of Jurupa Valley is home to a diverse landscape that includes hillside communities, open space, and a major river corridor. While these features enhance the character of our City, they also place many neighborhoods within the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), where the risk of wildfire is higher.

The Jurupa Hills along the northern portion of the City and the Indian Hills in the central area contain light, fast-burning fuels such as chaparral and native vegetation. Along the southern border of Jurupa Valley, the Santa Ana Riverbed contains heavier and denser fuels that can contribute to ember casting and increase the potential for fire to spread into surrounding areas and ignite lighter fuels throughout the community.

Jurupa Valley contracts with CAL FIRE / Riverside County Fire Department for fire protection services. These professionals are trained and equipped to protect our community during wildfire incidents—but preparedness starts with residents.

To help our community reduce risk and take action, Jurupa Valley promotes the CAL FIRE Ready, Set, Go! Wildfire Action Plan, which provides practical guidance to help you and your family:

Get Ready by preparing your home, creating defensible space, and assembling emergency supplies

Get Set by monitoring conditions and being ready to evacuate

Go Early when instructed by public safety officials to ensure your safety and allow firefighters to do their job

Don’t wait for wildfire season to begin preparing. Follow the Ready, Set, Go! guidance and review the information in the links below for step-by-step instructions to help protect your home and family.

GET READY

Create and maintain defensible space and harden your home against flying embers.

Being Ready for wildfire starts with maintaining an adequate defensible space by hardening your home by using fire resistant building materials. Defensible space is the buffer you create by removing dead plants, grass, and weeds. This buffer helps to keep the fire away from your home. Hardening your home means using construction materials that can help your home withstand flying embers finding weak spots in the construction, which can result in your house catching fire. It takes the combination of both Defensible space and the hardening of your home to really give your hose the best change of surviving a wildfire.

GET SET

Prepare your family and home ahead of time for the possibility of having to evacuate.

Before wildfire strikes, it is important that you get Set. Prepare yourself and your home for the possibility of having to evacuate. There are three main preparation actions that should be completed and should be familiar to all members of your household, long in advance of a wildfire. 

3 Steps to getting Set:

Create a Wildfire Action Plan that includes evacuation planning for your home, family, and pets.

Assemble an Emergency Supply Kit for each person in your household. 

Fill out a Family Communication Plan that includes important evacuation and contact information.

GO! EVACUATION GUIDE

Take the evacuation steps necessary to give your family & home the best chance of surviving a wildfire.

Give your household the best chance of surviving a wildfire by being ready to go and evacuating early. This includes going through pre-evacuation preparation steps (only if time allows) to increase your home's defenses, as well as creating a Wildfire Action Plan for your family. Being ready to go also means knowing when to evacuate and what to do if you become trapped.

Remember: When immediate evacuation is necessary, follow these steps as soo as possible to get ready to GO!

  1. Review your Evacuation Plan Checklist. 
  2. Ensure your Emergency Supply Kit is in your vehicle(s). 
  3. Cover-up to protect against heat and flying embers. Wear long pants, long sleeve shirt, heavy shoes/boots, cap, dry bandanna for a face cover, and goggles or glasses. Clothing that is 100% cotton is preferable. 
  4. Locate your pets and take them with you.