Storm Cleanup in Somerset
Downed trees on open ground and across drives, plus storm debris hauled or staged — handled by the same local crews that do our clearing work.
Storms in the Somerset area drop the same trees that make the fuel problem: overloaded pines, oaks past their span, and everything the last dry summer weakened. We clear what's already down on open ground and sort the debris for the next step — and because we're a clearing outfit first, the cleanup doubles as a look at what should come out before the next fire season.
The facts below describe Somerset from public county and federal records — worth a look whether the storm brought us or the brush did.
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.