Defensible Space Clearing in Coloma-Lotus
Full Zone 0–2 defensible space work — the first five feet cleared to bare mineral soil, ladder fuels out to 30, spacing to 100. Done the way the PRC 4291 checklist reads it, by a crew that works these hills every week.
Defensible space in Coloma-Lotus isn't a lawn-care job. It's the specific, sequenced removal of the fuels that carry ground fire to a structure — and the sequence matters more than the acreage. We start at the house and work outward: the first five feet down to noncombustible, ladder fuels broken up through thirty, crown spacing to a hundred where the parcel carries timber.
Every job starts with what your ground actually holds — not a generic checklist. The facts below are measured for Coloma-Lotus from public county and federal records, and they're the same facts we look at before we quote.
Coloma-Lotus, as the public record shows it
- Firewise standing
- Coloma-Lotus Firewise Community — standing: Good; program status: active (county OWPR record, as of ).
- Parcels in the community boundary
- 1,388 parcels (county assessor, as of ).
- Recorded fire history
- 6 recorded fires touching the area since 1950 — most recently BAYNE (2007) (CAL FIRE FRAP, as of ).
- Fire hazard severity mapping
- Of 1383 analyzed parcels: 436 high, 4 moderate, 943 very high (analysis ongoing) (CAL FIRE, as of ).
- The housing stock, per county records
- Median home built 1987 — most homes here predate ember-resistant construction standards. 117 other, 203 vacant land, 26 unclassified, 35 commercial, 6 multi-family, 968 single-family homes among 1,355 measured parcels (county assessor via enrichment pass, as of ).
- Wildland-urban interface
- 86 parcels outside the mapped interface; 713 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.
Every quote starts from your parcel's own picture — the free check below draws your boundary and hazard context from the same public data, no site visit needed to get a number started.
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 — community figures are public-record aggregates, and your own parcel's picture comes from the free check.