Defensible Space Clearing in Somerset
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 Somerset 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 Somerset from public county and federal records, and they're the same facts we look at before we quote.
Somerset, as the public record shows it
- 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.
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.