SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — Thursday, a meeting was held in Salt Lake County to discuss how a bill to reduce wildfires, H.B. 48, will impact local communities, including with property management and potential fees.

H.B. 48 is a bill that was passed by the legislature this year and is set to go into effect on January 1, 2026, that is meant to help mitigate fires in high-risk Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) area. The WUI is the zone where structures and human development meet undeveloped wildland.

Those areas, throughout the country, tend to have more devastating wildfires. According to Joseph Anderson with the Utah Division of Forestry, Fire and State Lands, some of the deadliest wildfires in recent years have occurred in WUI areas and burned significantly more structures than rural areas.

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