Large overstory trees are not the fire problem. A ladder fuels is a firefighting term for live or dead vegetation that allows a fire to climb up from the landscape or forest floor into the tree canopy. This can be prevented by removing ladder fuels that can wick fire from surface fuels such as pine needle litter or flammable brush into the upper tree canopy. This type of home ignition can be prevented by maintaining an area 30 feet around the home that does not have any continuous fuels that would enable fire to burn up to the structure, including wood fences.Ĭrown fire can originate in a very small area on a property and burn the home down by direct flame contact and radiant energy. Note in the picture below that the trees around the homes are quite healthy except where they were damaged by burning homes. The Lean, Clean and Green ZoneĮmbers frequently ignite surface fuels such as pine needle that then enable flames to travel to the deck or home and directly ignite the structure. Preventing embers from igniting a home is primarily accomplished in the 5-foot non-combustible zone around the home. The Non-Combustible ZoneĮffective defensible space must address the areas of the home and yard where embers can accumulate and ignite a vulnerable area of a home, deck, debris, or flammable brush. This fact provides an opportunity to stop home ignitions, even during extreme fire conditions.ĭefensible space has proven to be effective in recent wildfires near the Lake Tahoe Basin. Your home is far more resilient than many people imagine. Note that home ignition and the types of wildfire that cause firefighter and civilian deaths are very different. Learn here how Jack Cohen (Fire Sciences Researcher) explains the interaction of wildfire and structures helped homes from tragedy.
Having good defensible space means “cutting the wick” of flammable vegetation near your home. The second is by having continuous fuels leading to the home with no fuel break. The first and most important is by burning embers. Wildfires typically ignite homes in two ways. The purpose of “defensible space” is to reduce the likelihood of a home or structure igniting from a wildland fire. Defensible space consultations can be scheduled onlineor by calling our office at 775.588.3591 by asking for a defensible space consultation. Our inspectors are certified to issue TRPA Tree Removal Permits when tree removal is necessary for fire safety. TDFPD has defensible space inspectors who can evaluate your property and provide evaluation documentation consistent with Nevada State Law that is acceptable by most homeowners’ insurance companies. Defensible Space Evaluations / Consultations (Tree Removal Permitting) HAZARD tree marking is available during the winter months through the Forester, Bruce Barr at TRPA 77. Scientists say climate change has made the West much warmer and drier in the past 30 years and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive.Appointments are available after april 15th, weather permitting. It was formed by fires that broke out July 13 and July 22 and merged into one.ĭrought in the West tied to climate change is making wildfires harder to fight. That wildfire became the second-largest in the California’s recorded history as it raged across 1,505 square miles (3,898 square kilometers), destroying more than 1,300 structures including nearly 700 homes.
Many of the homes that were destroyed were in the small rustic forest community of Grizzly Flat.Įlsewhere in California, in the northern Sierra Nevada and southern Cascades mountain ranges, the gigantic Dixie Fire was 97% contained as of late Wednesday. 14 and destroyed 1,000 structures including more than 770 homes as it marched toward the tourist destination community of South Lake Tahoe, which was spared. The fire is expected to continue smoldering long into the winter, authorities said. Storms this week covered the western side of the fire in snow, rain fell on the eastern side and stronger storms are expected throughout this week. The fire, which scorched more than 346 square miles (896 square kilometers) of the Sierra Nevada and burned hundreds of homes, reached the milestone late Wednesday, according to a report from firefighting officials.
(AP) - The 2-month-old California wildfire that threatened the Lake Tahoe resort region over the summer has been declared 100% contained, officials said.
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