Wildfire Peer Review report Land Brandenburg 2025
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A Thematic Peer Review of Land Brandenburg's wildfire risk management system has been completed by a European team of experts, supported by the European Commission and CMCC. The newly released report highlights strengths, identifies areas for improvement, and offers targeted recommendations to enhance resilience across prevention, preparedness, response, recovery, and lessons learned.
Four peers carried out an on-site mission in Land Brandenburg under the Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM) Peer Review Programme to assess wildfire risk governance and practice to provide actionable pathways for strengthening capabilities.
Key strengths of the current system were identified, in addition to key recommendations by resilience category. Examples are given below:
- Governance - consider updating the Forest Fire Decree to effectively regulate the entire wildfire risk management cycle and further clarify roles and responsibilities.
- Planning - local wildfire risk management plans for Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas could be developed in accordance with specific technical guidelines, which need to be established to support the planning process.
- Prevention - the establishment of a main network of forest firebreaks could help in increasing the overall territorial resilience.
- Preparedness - the training capacity on wildfire fighting needs to be expanded and the number of training courses should be increased particularly at the basic level (especially at the local and district levels), where most participants are volunteers.
- Recovery - wildfire statistics need to be further enhanced by including a detailed analysis of wildfire suppression costs.
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Last checked: 22 August 2025
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