Webinar Recording: PODs Revision & Expansion Virtual Workshop (Nov. 6, 2023)

This workshop was hosted virtually on Nov. 6, 2023.

Target Audience: Fire managers, interagency partners, line officers/Agency Administrators, and any NCFC partners interested in learning more about PODs and how they are developed.

Potential Operational Delineations, or PODs, are a spatial planning framework in which fire responders, resource managers, and other cross-jurisdictional partners bring their local knowledge to a process to identify spatial units or containers defined by potential control features, such as roads and ridgetops. Each POD may be summarized with relevant forest conditions, values at risk, and fire potential and used to pre-plan for wildfire across jurisdictions and at a landscape scale using a risk management approach.

PODs are a central component of the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative’s emerging landscape spatial strategy, providing a basic building block of fuels treatment and vegetation management planning as we work to prepare landscapes to receive and recovery from inevitable wildfire. Partners of the NCFC have used the existing PODs network developed by the Arapaho & Roosevelt National Forest (ARP) to inform planning on numerous projects with multiple objectives. However, our PODs network was developed before the 2020 wildfire season and only covers the ARP’s jurisdiction. To be truly useful for cross-boundary planning, the network must be updated, refined, and extended off these federal lands. This series of workshops will allow us to collaboratively generate the spatial data we need to inform future all-lands planning before, during, and after wildland fire.

To view or download the slides from this workshop click here.