Fire Mitigation

Fire Mitigation

With Fire Prevention, it greatly reduces the potential for wildfires by eliminating small leafy plants or fallen trees. If left untreated those fuels increase potential for fires and increase heat intensity.

Fire mitigation is a series of steps that you can take to reduce the risk of a wildfire consuming your property. It includes assessing the risks around your property, recognizing the wildfire dangers and your responsibility in mitigating them, thereby creating a defensible space. It involves how and where you store materials around your property, considering the health of your trees to determine the need for trimming or removal, as well as designating 3 zones of protection (0-30’, 30-100’, 100’+) in your defensible space.

The methods used to treat properties are mastication and hand cutting of vegetation.

Mastication is a method using machines with cutting heads that mulch the vegetation over the ground.  The result is a fine mulch that does not inhibit the growth of grass or other desirables.