A&M Chipping n' Splitting 619-876-2511                                                   Ace Ramos 760-997-3608

Blaines Tree & Chipping Services 760-315-6864                                   JJ Ramos 760-825-9118

C.W. Handyman Services & Hauling 619-335-0967                             Renee Saldivar 760-545-3705

Julian's Happy Helpers 760-765-0506                                                         Dylan Delgado 760-525-8649

LTC Forestry Inc. 760-654-3569                                                                      Todd Russell 619-345-1770

SDC Cleaning & Yard Services 760-270-6081                                         Victor Seth Jacob 760-440-6973

The Tree Fairy 760-315-9735                                                                            Prepared Property 951-440-8721

Wildfire Fuel Management 781-718-6445                                                Bar D Bar Landworks, Inc. 760-498-3834

San Diego Brush Clearing 760-760-1941                                                   Pope Tree Service  619-929-2667

Patriot Group 951-834-3809                                                                             Estate Tree Service  760-440-9138

Daniel DeWitt 760-419-7635                                                                           Four Seasons Tree Service  760-310-5156

El Encino Tree Service  760-215-1150       

Home ignition zones often overlap onto adjacent properties. This makes the conditions of neighboring homes and vegetation a part of the wildfire threat. It's extremely important that neighbors work collaboratively with each other (and talk with each other) to reduce their shared risk.

Firewise USA® is a voluntary program that provides a framework to help neighbors get organized, find direction and take action to increase the ignition resistance of their homes and community.

1. Organize it

Create a board or committee of volunteers to represent your community, including residents and partners such as local forestry agencies or the fire department. Identify a resident leader who will be the program point of contact. The board or committee defines the boundaries of the site and determines the number of individual single family dwelling units. Minimum of 8 dwelling units and a maximum of 2,500.  

2. Plan it

The board or committee will collaborate with their local wildfire expert to complete a community wildfire risk assessment. The assessment should be a community-wide view that identifies areas of successful wildfire risk reduction and areas where improvements could be made. Emphasis should be on the general conditions of homes and related home ignition zones.  The assessment is a living document and needs to be updated at a minimum every 5 years. The board/committee will use the risk assessment to create a three-year action plan, broken down by year, that identifies and prioritizes actions to reduce ignition risk to homes.

3. Do it

Each year, neighbors complete educational and risk reduction actions identified in the plan. These go towards your site's annual reporting efforts. At a minimum, each site is required to annually invest the equivalent of one volunteer hour per dwelling unit in wildfire risk reduction actions. If your site has identified 100 homes within its boundary, than 100 hours of work or the monetary equivalent, based on the independent sector value of volunteer time, need to be completed for that year.

4. Tell Firewise USA® about it

When the above criteria have been met, the Resident Leader applies for recognition through the Firewise® Portal, describing educational and mitigation work in the site. Each year, sites renew their status by reporting their activity.