We clear brush and build defensible space in the Sierra foothills — and before anyone drives out, we check your parcel from the air: hazard zone, fire history, and the zones drawn around your house. You get a graded worksheet of what actually needs work, in order, and the job goes to the crew equipped for it — hand crews for steep tight ground, mowing crews for open acreage. Local crews, every job proven with before-and-after photos — and straight with you about what your property needs.
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Jobs are matched to the crew equipped for them — a hand crew for steep tight ground, a mowing crew for open acreage. Your property report tells us which is which before anyone drives out, and every job is held to the same standard: before-and-after photos, checked.
The crew list is growing. If your job needs something here, say so in the quote form — we'll tell you straight and point you to an outfit we'd use ourselves rather than leave you hanging. Grading, excavation, and dirt work stay out of scope entirely.
Full Zone 0–2 treatment: dead and dying vegetation out, brush cleared, trees limbed up to six feet, spacing opened to standard. Cut to the checklist your inspector carries, with material stacked into burn piles or set aside for firewood as you prefer.
Manzanita, buckbrush, and scrub oak cut at the ground; small-diameter trees thinned so fire can't climb from grass to canopy. Done with brush cutters and chainsaws — good trees and shrubs kept on purpose, not mowed flat.
Fence lines, driveways, and pasture edges cut back and kept passable — for you, your equipment, and the engine that needs to reach your house.
Downed trees bucked and cleared, overgrown lots brought back, material built into proper burn piles or stacked for firewood and habitat. Haul-off is available as a separately quoted add-on when you want it gone.
California requires 100 feet of defensible space around structures in fire hazard zones. Inspectors — and increasingly, insurance carriers — check it in three zones. Here's what each one means on the ground.
Nothing combustible against the structure: no woody plants, no mulch beds, no stacked firewood, clean gutters and decks.
Dead vegetation removed, shrubs spaced and separated, tree limbs up off the ground and away from the roofline.
Grass mowed to four inches, ladder fuels broken up, trees thinned so crowns keep their distance from each other.
A CAL FIRE defensible space notice or a carrier's non-renewal letter usually comes with a deadline measured in weeks. The fix is almost always the same Zone 0–2 checklist, done thoroughly and documented.
Send us the letter and photos of your property. We'll quote against the specific findings, do the work, and leave you with before-and-after photos for your inspector or insurance agent.
Check my property first Or send the letter & photosPhotos tell us most of what we need. Send a few wide shots of the area, answer a handful of questions, and you'll hear back within one business day.
You'll hear back with a ballpark within one business day. If it's deadline work, say so in a reply and we'll bump you up the list.