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A defensible space, in the context of fire control, is a natural and/or landscaped area around a structure that has been maintained and designed to reduce fire danger. The practice is sometimes called firescaping. [1] ". Defensible space" is also used in the context of wildfires, especially in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). [2]
Fire Safe Council Logo (used by the CFSC and local fire safe councils) The name California Fire Safe Council (CFSC) has been used for two very different organizations. The original use of the name, from 1993 through mid-2002, referred to a loose consortium of local community-based fire safe councils and other organizations that shared the mission of making California's communities less ...
Fire safe councils are grassroots community-based organizations in California that share the objective of making communities less vulnerable to catastrophic wildfire.Fire safe councils accomplish this objective through education programs and projects such as shaded fuel breaks or firebreaks to protect area residents against an oncoming wildfire and to provide firefighters with a place to fight ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s fire hazard severity designations were established in the 1980s in the wake of severe fires. According to Cal Fire, the assignments ...
A legislative proposal to overhaul California's decades-old wildfire mapping system is generating intense debate, with critics saying it threatens to fundamentally reshape the state's fire and ...
A project in the Tahoe National Forest will thin vegetation to reduce hazardous fuels, create defensible space around six communities and implement safe entry and exit routes on 6.3 miles of road ...
The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) [2] [3] is the fire department of the California Natural Resources Agency in the U.S. state of California.It is responsible for fire protection in various areas under state responsibility totaling 31 million acres, as well as the administration of the state's private and public forests.
Glass Fire. The Glass Fire was a wildfire in Northern California, that started on September 27, 2020, at 3:48 AM (PDT) from an undetermined cause and was active for 23 days. [ 2 ] It was part of the 2020 California Wildfires and the 2020 Western United States wildfire season.