Wildfire Preventation by Landscape Companies

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Wildfire Prevention

• Understanding the risk for wildfire and how to
  protect your investment is crucial for owners in
  this region.

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About Fire Prevention

• Living in a warm, sunny climate like Santa
  Barbara has an obvious appeal to us all. But,
  with comfortable temperatures and infrequent
  rainy days comes a serious reality that cant be
  ignored. Drought conditions leave landscapes dry,
  turning once lush grasses and shrubs into
  veritable kindling that can help fire spread,
  well, like wildfire. Tongue in cheek aside,
  controlling dried weeds, tall grass, and scrub is
  critical in redirecting the spread of fire and
  ensuring the safety and protection of buildings
  in its path.

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Benefits of Having a Landscape Contractor

• Understanding the risk for wildfire and how to
  protect your investment is crucial for owners in
  this region. Therefore, a Santa Barbara landscape
  contractor is an ideal partner in developing a
  strategy for keeping wildfires away from your
  home or ranch. Employing the same tools used to
  keep your garden and lawn looking beautiful, a
  landscape crew can quickly and effectively reduce
  and eliminate the dry plant material that might
  otherwise allow fire to get too close to your
  building.

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Why Choose Us?

• Through working with local municipalities fire
  departments to perform targeted clearing of brush
  and scrub, we have learned quite a bit about
  their approach to fire prevention and safety. We
  combine their standards for clearance offsets and
  building envelopes with our knowledge of
  plantsspecifically which are most likely to
  spread fireto create guidelines that inform how
  we approach fire safety for our private clients.
  Upon investigating your property.

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Landscaping for wildfire prevention

• Drought conditions in the Santa Barbara region
  make wildfire prevention a true concern for
  property owners, especially for communities at
  the base of the Santa Ynez Mountains that
  experience frequent sundownershigh temperature
  surges created by the release of superheated air.
  Here buildings and the landscape around them
  must be designed with regard for fire safety.
  Protecting ones investment is a primary concern
  in how properties in these areas are developed.

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The Cal Fire website makes the following
recommendations for two key zones as they relate
to the building envelope

• In the first thirty feet all dead landscape
  material including branches, leaves, grasses, and
  weeds should be removed. Trees in this zone
  should be no closer than ten feet from each other
  and dead branches within ten feet of the building
  should be removed. It is critical to evaluate
  the separation of landscaping and structures
  including decks, overhangs, and furnishings in
  this zone to slow the spread of fire.
• Extending to 100 feet from the building, shrubs
  and trees should be spaced to prevent a ladder
  effect that allows fire to climb from smaller
  shrubs up adjacent trees, thus intensifying its
  impact. Local authorities often establish the
  formulas for such vertical spacing and will
  gladly provide the information to homeowners.

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Particular attention is paid to dead plant
materials, which are like kindling in a wildfire
situation. So too can shrubs and perennials be
overly dry and conducive to the spread of fire in
their off seasons or during hot summers. A
Santa Barbara landscape contractor can evaluate
the landscape and help determine which plants
need to be removed or simply cut back until new
growth can come in the following season. And, as
the work can be laborious for the average
homeowner, hire your contractor to make your home
safer from wildfire with regular cleanups and
inspection for adherence to the protection
guidelines.
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