• View of Grand Canyon National Park at sunset from the South Rim

    Grand Canyon

    National Park Arizona

Community Wildfire Prevention & Safety

aerial view of grand canyon village looking north to the canyon.

Grand Canyon Village

Throughout the United States it is more and more common to see homes and other types of structures in wildland environments. This trend is creating an expansion of wildland urban interface areas where structures are located next to large amounts of vegetation. Because of their location, these structures are extremely vulnerable to fire, should a wildfire occur in the surrounding area.

These links provide you with resources available to homeowners in the wildland urban interface to learn about keeping your property safe from wildfire.

 
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QUICKLINKS:

Firewise
Arizona Firewise
Arizona Communities at Risk from Wildfire

Grand Canyon National Park Evacuation Procedures
(Updated June 2012 - 137kb PDF File)

 
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Did You Know?

Grand Canyon Shuttle Buses

For more than 30 years Grand Canyon National Park has provided a free shuttle bus
system on the South Rim. Visitors and
residents have made 75,000,000 boardings.
Riding the shuttles makes your stay more enjoyable, while reducing pollution and
decreasing traffic congestion. More...