How should future College construction in the District prepare to meet this risk?
An analysis by the Yavapai Community College Institutional Effectiveness and Research Department shows that the Prescott campus has essentially the same risk of a catastrophic forest or brush fire as Paradise, California. Recall that the Paradise fire killed 85 people and covered an area of 153,336 acres (almost 240 sq. miles), and destroyed 18,804 structures. The total damage was estimated at $16.5 billion.
Tom Hughes, Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Research at the Community College, presented this analysis at the November 12 District Governing Board meeting. He asked the Board members to reflect on future construction and how the College should deal with the potential of facing a fire of the magnitude of the Paradise fire in the District.
It was noted that over 400 hundred colleges and universies (roughly 8% of market) have formed a Climate Leadership network, comming to a combinaon of reducing greenhouse gases their school, becoming carbon neutral, and/ or developing community capacity to deal with climate change. (htps://secondnature.org/climate-aconguidance/ network/).
