With wildfire strategies emerging across the United Kingdom (UK), there is an opportunity to learn key lessons from countries with decades of experience applying wildfire prevention to property and infrastructure at risk from wildfire. This informational paper (paper) highlights the key elements of providing resilience to protect property and infrastructure such as development planning and guidance, building control standards, and codes and community preparedness and resilience information, tailored to the UK context, using England as an example. It draws upon lessons learned from countries like the United States (US), where the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy has proven immensely beneficial. This paper underscores the transformative potential of such frameworks and the ability to apply these as a quick-acting and direct approach to building resilience to wildfire.
