The PUC Process
Forms & Permits
How should I thin around my home?
This UC ANR PDF provided by Ryan Tompkins is a great starting point to thinning on your property! Thinning is often the first step of prescribed fire, especially when near structures or homes. Creating defensible space around your home will prevent damage to your home by lowering flame lengths and promote forest resiliency during the event of a wildland fire.
Other Resources
Burn Bosses for Hire
Have a complex burn unit identified? A PUC Coordinator can come walk your property and advise you on whether or not you’ll need a burn boss for hire.
DSS Wildfire Response
Incline Village, NV
888-336-1389
operations@dsscorp.net
https://www.dss-wildfire.com
Firestorm Wildland Fire Suppression
Chico, CA
530-898-8153
firestorm@firestormfire.com
https://www.firestormfire.com
High Sierra Fire
Janesville, CA
530-253-0110
highsierrafire@frontiernet.net
http://www.highsierrafireinc.com
Woods Fire
Portola, CA
woodsfire1@gmail.com
Helpful Websites
Useful Apps
Cell phone apps we find ourselves using pretty often for prescribed fire:
Weather/monitoring
Cost-share thinning and burning programs
The below programs are grant-funded and come at a lower cost than traditional work performed by a traditional contractor:
CAL FIRE Vegetation Management Program
“The Vegetation Management Program (VMP) is a cost-sharing program that focuses on the use of prescribed fire, and some mechanical means, for addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other resource management issues on State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands.”
Terra Fuego Fuels Treatments
Terra Fuego, a non-profit out of Chico, CA, provides consulting, planning, and burning prep & implementation to landowners using a cost-share model.
Want to get paid to do fuel reduction work on your land?
The NRCS may be able to help through their EQIP program.
Call the Quincy USDA Service Center for more information: (530) 283-7511
Common applications