Utah Administrative Code
Topic - Natural Resources
Title R652 - Forestry, Fire and State Lands
Rule R652-122 - Cooperative Agreements
Section R652-122-500 - Determination of Historic Fire Cost Average

1. Only wildfire suppression costs that are accrued and paid by the state on behalf of a participating entity are counted toward that entity's Historic Fire Cost Average, this includes state-paid costs after a Delegation of Fire Management Authority and Transfer of Fiscal Responsibility has occurred.

2. The historic fire cost average is calculated on a rolling ten-year average, dropping the highest and lowest cost years and adjusting for inflation, using the CPI; therefore, each ten-year average will have eight data points.

3. The historic fire cost average includes only suppression costs for which that entity who has fire suppression responsibility and taxation authority.

4. A county's historic fire cost average will only include state-paid suppression costs on all unincorporated land other than federal and state.

5. A municipality's historic fire cost average will only include state-paid suppression costs on all incorporated land other than federal and state.

6. An entity with both county and municipality responsibilities will include state -paid suppression costs on all unincorporated land other than federal, within a county and state -paid suppression costs on all incorporated land other than federal, within their jurisdiction.