Defensible space clearing in Somerset
Steep oak-and-brush country where most parcels carry manzanita and buckbrush that hasn't been touched in years.
We work this ground. Here's Somerset as the public record shows it — the same data we use to scope every job before quoting:
The picture from public data
- Firewise standing
- Somerset Firewise Community — program status: terminated (last recorded standing: Good) (county OWPR record, as of ).
- Parcels in the community boundary
- 178 parcels (county assessor, as of ).
- Recorded fire history
- 1 recorded fire touching the area since 1950 — most recently SCOTT (1959) (CAL FIRE FRAP, as of ).
- Fire hazard severity mapping
- Of 178 analyzed parcels: 9 moderate, 169 very high (CAL FIRE, as of ).
- The housing stock, per county records
- Median home built 1983 — most homes here predate ember-resistant construction standards. 13 other, 28 vacant land, 6 commercial, 130 single-family homes among 177 measured parcels (county assessor via enrichment pass, as of ).
- Wildland-urban interface
- 20 parcels outside the mapped interface; 123 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.