Fire Mitigation and Defensible Space

 Defensible space is a buffer zone around your home where vegetation has been managed to reduce the risk of fire spreading to structures on your property. Colorado recommends three zones:

 This is the area immediately around your home. Vegetation here should be well-watered, low-growing, and widely spaced: remove dead plants, dry leaves, wood piles, and trim any branches that hang over the roof.

 Further from the house, the goal is to break up the continuity of vegetation so fire can't easily travel. We remove even more dead material, thin trees, and create spacing between shrubs and tree canopies so that fire risk is mitigated while you can still enjoy your property.

 On larger properties, we can continue thinning and clearing to extend your protection zone and reduce overall fuel load - keeping fire risk to a minimum is our biggest concern.