We Help Communities Navigate Megafires

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2024 SUMMIT

The 2024 Wildfire Leadership Summit recordings are now live! Stay tuned for 2025 Summit information.

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ADVOCACY

Our support of HR 5863, a critically important bill for fire survivors and against unfair taxation. Passed the Senate under Unanimous Consent.

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SUPPORTING MAUI

After the Fire USA is leading delegations of fire survivor leaders and incredible SMEs to Maui post-Megafire.

What We Do

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We Deploy

No community should have to invent wildfire recovery. We support locally led and designed recoveries. We start with listening and asking, "What do you need, and how can we help?"

We Connect

We built a robust network of leaders, NGOs, civil servants, and private sector businesses to connect with wildfire communities. We host an annual Wildfire Leadership Summit that connects and informs our network.

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We Advocate

The Era of Megafire wrecks mass devastation yearly. We advocate federally with wildfire survivors to enact relevant and compassionate legislation for fair recovery.

We Educate

We democratize information, connect changemakers, and amplify great ideas via content creation, public speaking, annual convening, and 1:1 consulting. Check out our YouTube with over 300 videos!

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We Innovate

The next 50 years will be devoted to fostering multi-peril resilience in our built environment + social structures. We embrace great ideas from passionate people. We must reimagine resiliency and collaborate daily.

Support Our Impact

We help communities recover from wildfire via deployments, advocacy, education, and networking. Your donation will help us continue our work in the Era of Megafire. Together we DO.

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Stay Updated

Gentrification by Fire

February 10, 2024

Story by The Washington Post. SANTA ROSA, Calif. — Climate change and its most extreme consequences are pushing up the price of homes throughout much of the American West, as fires and flooding carve into existing housing stock and restrict the amount of land suitable for future building. Over several harrowing weeks in October 2017,…

Five months after Maui fires, housing remains Lahaina’s biggest challenge in rebuilding efforts

January 9, 2024

Story by NBC News. Five months since the deadly wildfires in Lahaina, Hawaii, providing housing for displaced residents continues to be the biggest challenge facing the community’s rebuilding efforts. After the Fire CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Meet the Press NOW to share the latest developments.  

NBC News Now: Nov 24, 2023. Dasha Burns

November 24, 2023

Jennifer Gray Thompson joins Dasha Burns on NBC News Now to discuss After the Fire USA’s delegation to Maui to aid in recovery efforts.  

What happens after the fire

August 19, 2023

Story by npr. NPR’s Pien Huang speaks to Jennifer Gray Thompson, founder and CEO of After the Fire USA, about what to expect from long-term recovery after a wildfire.   PIEN HUANG, HOST: I want to stay on that last point that we heard from Greg about the plans to rebuild those communities that were…

In Hawaii, concerns over ‘climate gentrification’ rise after devastating Maui fires

August 18, 2023

Story by AP news. Thompson said Maui is one of the “scariest opportunities for gentrification” that she’s seen because of “the very high land values and the intense level of trauma and the people who are unscrupulous who will come in to try to take advantage of that.”   Kim Cuevas-Reyes, a 38-year-old cellphone store…

Greenville rising from the ashes 2 years after Dixie Fire

August 10, 2023

Story by NBC Bay Area. “They’re very creative, they’re very innovative,” said Jennifer Gray Thompson of the Bay Area fire response group After The Fire. “And then to see this amazing wildfire resistant, really climate resistant go up here, really the most impressive example I’ve seen in six years of doing this work.”   Above…

Sonoma Valley resident, After the Fire CEO joining Rep. Mike Thompson at Biden’s State of the Union address

February 3, 2023

Story by The Sonoma Index-Tribune. As a lifelong resident of the valley and local leader in disaster relief from the 2017 fires, Rep. Thompson believes Gray Thompson “is emblematic of the strength of our survivor community and has been instrumental in helping fire survivors recover and rebuild.”   Rep. Mike Thompson from California’s 4th District…

Forbes Profile: Jennifer Gray Thompson

January 1, 2022

Story by Forbes. From the Editor Gray Thompson, a leader in the recent field of megafire disasters across the American West, is the CEO of After The Fire, a nonprofit organization supporting wildfire-affected communities. Thompson’s path to leadership took several turns. She was a high school dropout, a homeless teenager and a poverty-stricken single mom.…

Sonoma Group Forged in Tubbs Fire Helping Other Wildfire Victims Cope

August 17, 2021

Story by NBC Bay Area. “Our goal is they won’t have to begin at the beginning,” Thompson said. “We can actually shorten that pain period between actual event and how you rebuild.”   Amid the crumpled, twisted remains of the Plumas County town of Greenville, few people stirred, other than the constant caravans of disaster…