September Fire Safe Alliance meeting
Join us Sept 21 at 10 a.m. for the Placer County Fire Safe Alliance meeting. Our guest presenter will be Lisa Strange from California Department of Insurance. The meeting will be held via Zoom. If you would like to attend, please email fireready@placer.ca.gov to receive the Zoom link.
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By: Jacqui Manning, Placer County Office of Emergency Services
On Aug. 23, the California FAIR Plan announced their incentive discounts were effective. These discounts are for home hardening and defensible space mitigation measures. When completed, the home hardening measures can save 10% on the policy and the defensible space measures can save 5% on the policy. If you are a certified Firewise community there is a 10% discount. All of these discounts can be stacked for a total discount of 25% Learn more
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UC Cooperative Extension: Shaded fuel breaks
By: Katie Low, Statewide Coordinator - UCANR Fire Network
 A recent study conducted by UC Cooperative Extension, UC Berkeley, and the Plumas National Forest evaluated how shaded fuel breaks impacted forest stand structure post-treatment and post-wildfire and assessed if wildfire occurrence could extend the effective lifespan of a shaded fuel break.
Treatments effectively achieved desired forest structural conditions with effects persisting throughout the 20-year study period.
Wildfires of low to moderate severity also maintained fuel loads initially created by shaded fuel breaks.
Treatments also successfully reduced modeled fire behavior in the near and long-term. Though fire behavior was not modeled beyond 2021, average fire behavior estimates remained well below pre-treatment estimates 20-years later.
These results echo similar findings that the combined application of structural thinning and prescribed fire may offer greater treatment longevity and restoration efficacy that can last two decades.
Treatments that modify forest structure, reduce forest density and reduce surface fuel loads in concert by have greater longevity and utility compared to surface fuel only treatments that may require more frequent maintenance.
The restoration of forest structure and fuel conditions created by the treatments allow forests to persist through repeated unplanned wildfires.
In turn, subsequent wildfires can enhance treatment longevity, so fuel reduction treatments could facilitate the use of managed wildfire to better meet restoration goals. Interested in learning more about this study?
You can read the attached research brief or contact Katie Low Placer County UC Cooperative Extension (katlow@ucanr.edu).
Placer Burn Association
By: Cordi Craig, Prescribed Fire Program Manager
Placer RCD trains private landowners how to safely reintroduce fire to the landscape. This map demonstrates the success of classroom workshops and training burns in equipping private landowners with the skills, knowledge, and confidence to implement on their own. Join Placer Prescribed Burn Association to learn how to use fire as a management tool and contribute to community wildfire resilience
Placer Prescribed Burn Association, managed by Placer Resource Conservation District, is a program dedicated to building community wildfire resiliency one acre at a time.
Placer PBA trains private landowners and community members on how to apply safe, legal, and ecologically beneficial fire through educational workshops and demonstration burns.
We are excited to share our successes from the 2022/2023 prescribed burn season!
Between November 2022 and July 2023, Placer PBA taught seven classroom workshops, conducted 18 demonstration burns, and treated more than 25 acres.
More importantly, landowners who participated in training workshops reported burning a cumulative 261 acres, demonstrating a direct link between education and implementation. Placer PBA will be hosting more classroom workshops (monthly starting in October) and training burns this winter.
Interested in joining? It’s free! Contact Cordi Craig, Prescribed Fire Program Manager, at cordi@placerrcd.org for any questions and to get involved!
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