Defensible space clearing in Blackstone
We work this ground. Here's Blackstone as the public record shows it — the same data we use to scope every job before quoting:
The picture from public data
- Firewise standing
- Blackstone Firewise Community — standing: Good; program status: active (county OWPR record, as of ).
- Parcels in the community boundary
- 1,626 parcels (county assessor, as of ).
- Recorded fire history
- 3 recorded fires touching the area since 1950 — most recently PAYEN (2001) (CAL FIRE FRAP, as of ).
- Fire hazard severity mapping
- Of 1626 analyzed parcels: 79 high, 1,541 moderate, 6 very high (CAL FIRE, as of ).
- The housing stock, per county records
- Median home built 2015. 15 other, 34 vacant land, 1,574 single-family homes among 1,624 measured parcels (county assessor via enrichment pass, as of ).
- Wildland-urban interface
- 41 parcels outside the mapped interface; 22 parcels intermix (homes within wildland) (SILVIS 2020 via USFS, as of ).
Sources: SILVIS WUI 2020 (USFS EDW) · CAL FIRE Fire Hazard Severity Zones (per analyzed parcel) · El Dorado County assessor parcel layer · El Dorado County OWPR Firewise boundary layer · CAL FIRE FRAP fire perimeters (1878-present) · El Dorado County assessor parcel layer (enrichment pass). Community-level figures only — community data measured from public sources.
Quoting starts with the free aerial check below: your parcel's hazard zone, fire history, and the defensible-space zones drawn around your buildings, graded into a worksheet you can walk with. Clearing goes to the crew the ground calls for, and cut material is stacked into burn piles or set aside for firewood, your call.
See what wildfire-risk satellites see on your parcel — hazard zone, fire history, and defensible-space zones. Takes a minute, costs nothing.
Not an official inspection and not an insurance or compliance document — it's the honest picture of the parcel, which is where every good clearing job starts.