Fire Adapted Community
Trout Lake (FACT)

Fire Adapted Community Trout Lake (FACT) is a community-led group that strives to increase local knowledge about wildfire risk and preparedness, and to organize projects that mitigate Trout Lake’s fire risk.

Get involved!

• Join the FACT mailing list to receive monthly newsletters. Contact Sarah Allaben at 440-497-8224
  or sarah@mtadamsstewards.org

• Sign up for a free home wildfire risk assessment (sign up link)

• Read the Trout Lake Wildfire Risk Assessment and Action Plan (download here)

Recent FACT newsletters:

• July 2024 - Klickitat County Emergency Management

• June 2024 - Wildfire and Home Insurance

• April 2024 - Emergency Preparedness and Evacuation

• March 2024 - Free Chipping Services this Spring

• February 2024 - Pile Burning Best Practices

• January 2024 - Firewise USA Program in Trout Lake

• November 2023 – The Mt. Adams Prescribed Burn Association

• September 2023 – A Call for Projects and Input

• August 2023 – Trout Lake Wildfire Resilience Zones

• July 2023 – Tunnel 5 Fire: What to Know & Learn

• June 2023 – Community Defense via Shaded Fuel Breaks

• May 2023 – Wildfire Mitigation From Your Front Door

• April 2023 – Good Fire on the Mt. Adams Landscape

• March 2023 – Notes from the Trout Lake Fire Department

• February 2023 – Free Mobile Chipping this Spring

• January 2023 – Wildfire in Mt. Adams Country

The FACT committee consists of Bob Jolley (Trout Lake Fire Commissioner); Jim White (retired silviculturist and MARS board member); Sharon Frazey (Washington DNR); Daina Bambe (Trout Lake Community Council); Jim Lambert (Trout Lake Community Council); Glenn Bredfeldt (Community Member); Dennis Hill (Community Member); and Tom Reynolds (MARS board member).

FACT divides Trout Lake into 13 “neighborhoods” facing similar wildfire risks for planning and program administration.