Improving the Incident Strategic Alignment Process: Recommendations from the 2023 fire season

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The Incident Strategic Alignment Process (ISAP) is an emerging framework for considering risk and developing strategy during wildland fire management and all-hazard response. It is an iterative, collaborative, risk-based dialogue informed by advanced spatial and fire behavior analytics that takes place among Incident Management Team (IMT) members, Agency Administrators (AAs), and external partners. Throughout these conversations, those engaged with ISAP focus on four “pillars”: critical values at risk (CVAR), strategic actions, risks to responders, and probability of success (see the ISAP Story Map) to coconstruct durable incident-level strategy to minimize risks to communities, landscapes, and fire responders.