# 🚨 How to start a new Firewise neighborhood 🚨

**URL:** https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/how-to-start-a-new-firewise-neighborhood/169
**Category:** Start a new neighborhood
**Created:** [February 26, 2025, 1:33am UTC](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/how-to-start-a-new-firewise-neighborhood/169 "2025-02-26T01:33:17Z")
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### Author: ![cullanderc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/57b2e6/32.png) [@cullanderc](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/u/cullanderc)
#### Post date: [February 27, 2025, 10:38pm UTC](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/how-to-start-a-new-firewise-neighborhood/169/9 "2025-02-27T22:38:24Z")

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**Quick manual process for a hand-drawn map to submit to the NFPA**

- Locate your area on [one of the two maps](https://www.berkeleyfirewise.org/t/how-to-start-a-new-firewise-neighborhood/169/8) identified earlier
- Zoom to the highest level that still includes all the boundaries of your neighborhood
- Print the page
- Use a color marker to outline your footprint
- Scan the map
- Submit it to NFPA

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