Firewise Communities/USA is a project of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's Wildland/Urban Interface Working Team. It provides citizens with the knowledge necessary to maintain an acceptable level of fire readiness, while ensuring firefighters that they can use equipment more efficiently during a wildland fire emergency.

North Carolina's first Firewise community, River Run Plantation, will hold its annual Firewise Day on April 26, 2008.

Congratulations to North Carolina's newest Firewise certified communities; the Currituck Club, Laurelmor and Pisgah Forest Farms