Brush Cutting & Thinning in Pollock Pines South
Manzanita, buckbrush, scrub oak, and small-tree thinning — cut at the ground with brush cutters, chainsaws, and hand tools, so the property still looks like a property afterward.
The brush around Pollock Pines South isn't generic vegetation — it's manzanita that burns oily and hot, buckbrush that ladders ground fire into the canopy on south-facing slopes, and scrub oak that comes back unless it's cut with intent. We cut them by name: manzanita at the ground, buckbrush removed where it ladders and thinned where it doesn't, scrub oak spaced rather than scalped so the good canopy stays.
Hand crews where the ground demands it. The community facts below come from public county and federal records — the same picture we check before putting a number on the work.
Pollock Pines South, as the public record shows it
- Firewise standing
- Pollock Pines South Firewise Community — program status: proposed (last recorded standing: Good) (county OWPR record, as of ).
- Parcels in the community boundary
- 736 parcels (county assessor, as of ).
- Recorded fire history
- 2 recorded fires touching the area since 1950 — most recently an unnamed fire (1972) (CAL FIRE FRAP, as of ).
- Fire hazard severity mapping
- Of 736 analyzed parcels: 736 very high (CAL FIRE, as of ).
- The housing stock, per county records
- Median home built 1982 — most homes here predate ember-resistant construction standards. 9 other, 135 vacant land, 580 single-family homes among 725 measured parcels (county assessor via enrichment pass, as of ).
- Wildland-urban interface
- 616 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.
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