Mitigation Project Type: Defensible Space

Project Description: The creation of perimeters around residential and non-residential buildings and structures by:

  • Removing or reducing flammable vegetation
  • Replacing flammable vegetation with less flammable species
  • Clearing all combustibles in accordance with applicable codes and best practices

Purpose: To increase the chance that a structure can be protected or survive on its own. The default project effectiveness for such activities is 10%.

Pagent Home survives Hayman Fire South. Trees were thinned around home. Karen Wattenmaker/NIFC, June, 2002, County Road 67, Colorado