The Community Wildfire Protection Plan for King County WA has been approved by the state and a PDF is now available on the county website at:
https://cdn.kingcounty.gov/-/media/king-county/depts/executive-services/emergency-management/plans/2025-king-county-cwpp---signed.pdf
I searched for info about evacuation and found this passage on p21-22.
“An east wind event that coincides with a wildfire could push embers directly into the urban areas of King County, a situation which would be dangerous and even life-threatening. This could cause unprecedented destruction to our communities, though such a fire in and of itself is not unprecedented – it is a known feature of our local fire regime. Rapid evacuation is likely the only option for immediately protecting communities in a high-severity, east wind driven fire. 12. Because major high-severity fires occur infrequently, people in higher-risk areas may not realize just how vulnerable they would be to a destructive, wind-driven wildfire. Lack of awareness can lead to lack of preparedness, low interest in mitigation, and taking inadequate precaution with potential ignition sources – the opposite of actions that are needed to become a fire-adapted community.”
Footnote 12:
“Cascadia Burning: the historic, but not historically unprecedented, 2020 wildfires in the Pacific Northwest, USA,” PDF is online at:
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/ecs2.4070
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