Is your property in need of defensible space services? Grind Fire Definse can clear your lot to better defend your home from the threat of a wildfire. Lot clearing is an essential part of defensible space.
Grind Fire Defense can clear brush away from your home to give your home defensible space and harden your home against the threat of wildfire.
Defensible space, and home hardening are essential to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire. Grind Fire Defense is a professional defensible space service provider.
Tree removal is often required for defensible space. Grind Fire Defense can remove the tree, and clean up your lot at the same time.
Zone Zero is Ground Zero when protecting your home from embers. This is the first Defensible Space zone, 0' to 5' from structures, decks, or anything attached to your home. Watch this short video for an introduction to the concept of Zone Zero and how you can help protect your home's most vulnerable exterior space from wildfire embers.
A video on Defensible space
Defensible space, coupled with home hardening, is essential to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire. Defensible space is the buffer you create between a building on your property and the grass, trees, shrubs, or any wildland area that surround it. Cal Fire is the go to source for information about fire safety. https://www.fire.ca.gov/programs/communications/defensible-space-prc-4291/
With the Carr fire mostly contained, you might assume that maintaining a defensible space around your home is no longer necessary. Experts will assure you that it is. As Dusty Gyves, the fire captain for Cal Fire Station No. 58, fought the fire, he noticed a large portion of people who had not complied with the law to make outdoor spaces around their homes less attractive to oncoming blazes and embers. But the Carr and Hirz fires should be a wake-up call. Nothing is foolproof, but Gyves said clearing defensible space tremendously reduces the risk of someone’s home being destroyed. Here’s what you need to know. Q: What is defensible space? It’s the space between a structure, like your home, and wildland area that acts as a buffer to slow or stop wildfires. Cal Fire defines it in two zones. Zone 1 is a 30-foot perimeter around structures, including decks. The second is 100 feet out from structures. Read more here Redding Record Searchlight
