by elementsmtnco | Apr 11, 2023 | Defensible Space, Elements Mountain Journal
Keep your property lean and green to help protect your family and home. Defensible Space is essential to improving your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire. Living with the threat of fire is a reality here in the Sierra. Creating appropriate defensible space around...
by elementsmtnco | May 31, 2022 | Defensible Space, Elements Mountain Journal, Forestry
Defensible Space is the area around a structure where combustible vegetation that can fuel wildfire has been cleared, reduced or replaced. This space acts as a barrier between a structure and an advancing fire. In January 2005, California State law extended the...
by elementsmtnco | May 26, 2022 | Defensible Space, Elements Mountain Journal, Forestry
Why Forest Mastication Is Important As we mentioned in our What Is Defensible Space? article, combustible vegetation that can fuel wildfire needs to be cleared or reduced. Forest fuel is one of the primary factors for why wildfires become catastrophic. In this article...
by elementsmtnco | Mar 21, 2022 | Defensible Space, Elements Mountain Journal
Sustainable Defensible Space starts with your building. Retrofitting your current structure or constructing a FireWise building in a wildfire hazard zone increases resistance of your investment to wildfire. Doing so also safeguards firefighters’ lives, improves...
