This video and story was originally posted on the Action News Now website. Defensible space inspections are an integral part of wildfire prevention and preparedness efforts. As highlighted in the recent article on Action News Now , the increased focus on defensible space inspections in Tehama County demonstrates a proactive approach toward minimizing the risks associated with wildfires. These inspections serve as a crucial line of defense, ensuring that properties are adequately prepared to withstand the threat of encroaching flames. The Benefits of Defensible Space Creating a defensible space around our homes and properties offers numerous advantages in wildfire-prone regions. It acts as a protective buffer, providing firefighters with easier access and maneuverability while reducing the risk of fire spreading. By implementing proper vegetation management, clearing combustible materials, and maintaining appropriate spacing between structures and natural fuels, we significantly enhance the chances of mitigating fire damage. Grind Fire Defense: Your Trusted Partner in Wildfire Preparedness At Grind Fire Defense, we specialize in providing top-notch wildfire-defensible space services tailored to the unique needs of Tehama County and its surrounding areas. Our team of experts is equipped with extensive knowledge and experience in creating effective defensible spaces that meet the highest safety standards. We offer comprehensive assessments, strategic planning, and implementation of proven techniques to safeguard your property and community.

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.

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 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/

Assembly Bill 38 established that, as of July 1, 2021, California Civil Code Section 1102.19 requires a seller of real property located in a High or Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone to provide the buyer with documentation stating the property is in compliance with defensible space requirements.The law allows, that if documentation demonstrating compliance cannot be obtained by the close of escrow, the seller and buyer can enter into a written agreement showing that the buyer agrees to obtain documentation of compliance within one year of the close of escrow. CHAPTER 6.8. Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zones [51175 - 51189]

In California (according to Verisk’s Wildfire Risk Analysis) there were more than 2 million properties at high to extreme wildfire risk in 2021, the largest number of properties of any U.S. state. In 2021, California wildfires burned more than 2.5 million acres, including at least 3,600 buildings. These fires cause devastation not only in remote areas but in our communities, where they destroy structures and take lives. Now more than ever it is important to create and maintain an area around your home that can slow or even stop the spread of wildfire. If one is going to live in or near a forest, one assumes a higher risk of fire. The best way to minimize that risk is to seriously and continually create and maintain defensible space. It’s not cheap. If it were, it would have been done already. “To get to where you have defensible space, it can be tens of thousands of dollars on an individual parcel,” Nick Goulette, executive director of the Watershed Research and Training Center, told E&E News . The center is part of the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network that urges forest communities to “safely accept fire as part of the surrounding landscape.”