Our Fire-Wise Landscaping services are designed to help homeowners reduce wildfire risk and enhance defensible space around their properties. Our offerings include:

• Vegetation Management: Removal of highly flammable plants and replacing them with fire-resistant options like xeriscaping or hardscaping.
• Tree and Shrub Pruning: Raising tree canopies and thinning vegetation to remove ladder fuels and decrease intensity of potential fires.
• Fuel Reduction: Regular mowing and cleanup of dry grass, pine needles, and fallen leaves to minimize combustible materials.
• Defensible Space Creation: Implementing measures to ensure that the area around your home meets wildfire safety guidelines, like the "first five feet" concept.

Creating and maintaining defensible space is a critical strategy in fire mitigation, designed to protect your home by reducing its vulnerability to wildfire. By strategically managing vegetation and other potential fuels, defensible space acts as a buffer that slows the spread of fire and provides firefighters with a safer environment to work.

Key fire-mitigation actions include removing flammable vegetation like junipers (which are highly combustible and can act as fire ladders), raising tree canopies to prevent ground fires from spreading into treetops, and mowing weeds/grasses to reduce fine fuels that ignite easily. Replacing wood mulch with hardscape materials, like gravel or stone, further minimizes fire risks near structures. Regularly collecting vegetative debris, such as dry leaves, pine needles, and fallen branches, reduces the accumulation of fuel that can sustain a fire.