Wildfire Safety Summit 2025: Advancing Wildfire Resilience Through Regional Collaboration

For the past 19 years, the Butte County Fire Safe Council has brought together friends, partners, and community members at the Wildfire Safety Summit (WFSS) to reflect on the year behind us—our shared progress, challenges, and growth—and to recognize the relationships that make this work possible.

Collaboration is deeply rooted in this community, built through shared experience—wildfire and disaster, recovery, and years of working side by side. This year's Summit reinforced those lessons: meaningful progress happens when we work collectively, align our efforts, and show up for one another.

Throughout the day, we exchanged practical, on-the-ground insights on wildfire and disaster recovery, cultural and beneficial fire, biomass removal, and grant management. These conversations highlighted what is already working and where continued coordination can help increase the pace and scale of landscape-level restoration.

A clear message echoed during the event: wildfire resilience and land stewardship are most effective when partnerships are strong, capacity is shared, and work is coordinated across boundaries rather than confined to silos. This work is rooted in relationships, a shared commitment to place, and deep honoring of the Indigenous stewardship of these lands since time immemorial.

As we move into the year ahead, we remain focused on turning shared learning into action, putting beneficial fire on the ground, advancing restoration and fuels projects, and supporting landscape-scale stewardship efforts that extend beyond county lines.

Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and energy to this year's Summit, and to the many partners who carry this work forward every day.

We all belong here, together.

This event was hosted in partnership with Neighbor-to-Neighbor, a program of California Volunteers, Office of the Governor.