The problem was that the South Kitsap Community had severe wind storms placing fire department personnel at risk for injury and death during response operations. The purpose of the research was to determine reasonable response strategies for severe wind events in South Kitsap Fire and Rescue.Action research was utilized through an extensive literature review, questionnaires sent to stakeholders and other departments, data mining and the analysis of weather and response information, and interviews conducted with key experts were conducted to answer the following research questions: How do other fire agencies operate during severe wind storms? What severe wind events have occurred and what type and severity of emergency events did they produce for SKFR during the past 5 years? How can SKFR get accurate weather information to predict severe wind storms and make operational decisions? When do wind conditions create unreasonable risk to SKFR employees? The results of the research identified a lower wind speed threshold for incrementally reducing service levels during wind storms in South Kitsap.Wind speeds at or above 40 mph create significant damage and risk to SKFR employees because of the type of trees, soil conditions and logging practices. A draft SKFR Severe Wind Response Emergency Operating Procedure was developed to modify practices to reflect the risk to value response policy within SKFR. Recommendations included the adoption of the Emergency Operating procedure; annual training of personnel; the purchase and installation of weather stations; a public education campaign on safe sheltering; an annual review of updated data; and the pointing of further research toward a quantification of the risk in the community from wind storms based upon the risk to wind throw and limb breakage to wind speed and response data.