At the home site / national (wildland-urban interface and adjacent properties)
Defensible-space vegetation stewardship audit (NFPA 1144 / Firewise) —.
Walk each Home Ignition Zone ring and record every plant's flammability, spacing, and maintenance condition. Read all of it
Not funded yet. Settles as earned credit, $160 proposed.
Proof it takes, the deadline, the level
- ProofZone 0 checked for combustible material, flagged top priority if present + Every plant in Zone 1/2 identified or flagged uncertain + Flammability recorded per PNW 590: moisture, dead material, resin/oil, growth habit + Crown-to-crown plus crown-to-structure spacing measured against the zone's separation guidance + Maintenance condition noted per area: dead material, irrigation, mulch/duff depth + Prioritized stewardship plan produced, all clearing routed to a licensed crew
- Open until2027-01-20
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All of it: the words, the place, the proof
Walk each Home Ignition Zone ring and record every plant's flammability, spacing, and maintenance condition. The NFPA 1144 / Firewise framework names the zones and the separation guidance the walk is measured against. Keepers who buy a 'fire-resistant plant list' and stop there miss the bigger honest finding: fire-resistant does not mean fireproof, and maintenance (dead material, moisture, spacing) drives fire behavior more than species choice alone. This audit produces a prioritized stewardship plan naming what to check first, Zone 0 first, then closest and driest, and routes every actual cut, prune, or removal to a licensed vegetation-management crew or this board's own labor-side defensible-space clearing packet; it never clears anything itself.
Offer to pay $160. The receipt lands onchain once the proof is approved.
Safety, read before you claim
Documentation and stewardship planning only: cut, prune, or clear nothing, however small. Stop and leave on any active fire, smoke, or red-flag warning, and route a cracked or leaning tree part to an ISA Certified Arborist.
The full safety list for this job:
- Zone 0 (0-5 ft) findings are flagged as the highest priority: several fire-prone states, including California, are phasing in mandatory ember-resistant Zone 0 material rules on a local-enforcement timeline, so a keeper should also check their own jurisdiction's current requirement rather than assume a fixed statewide date.
- Hands-on vegetation clearing, thinning, or removal — including hand-pulling — is never performed as part of this audit; it routes to a licensed vegetation-management crew or this board's own defensible_space_vegetation_clearing labor packet.
- A structural risk sign on a tree (crack, cavity, hanging limb, sudden lean, conks) found while walking the zones routes to this library's own urban_tree_visual_health_check packet and an ISA Certified Arborist, never assessed here.
- A cracked, leaning, or hanging tree part found while walking the zones cross-routes to this library's urban_tree_visual_health_check packet.
- A red-flag wind or heat warning during the walk means stop and leave immediately.
How this work is done
How this work is done
A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.
Bring
- The home and its surrounding zones, walked in daylight from a safe distance
- A tape measure or paced-off distance estimate for crown spacing
- A phone camera for species photos of any uncertain plant
- A notebook or form with one section per zone (Zone 0, Zone 1, Zone 2)
Steps
- 1. Identify the structure and mark out its three Home Ignition Zone rings per NFPA 1144 / Firewise: Zone 0 (0-5 ft), Zone 1 (5-30 ft), Zone 2 (30-100 ft).
- 2. Walk Zone 0 first: this zone should hold no combustible plant material at all (bare ground, rock, pavers only). Record any plant, mulch, or other combustible material found here as the top-priority line in the plan.
- 3. Walk Zone 1 and Zone 2: identify each plant's species (or photograph and flag uncertain), then record its flammability characteristics per PNW 590's own framework — moisture content, dead-material retention, resin/oil/aromatic content, and growth habit — never a fixed 'fire-resistant species list' read in isolation.
- 4. Measure or pace off crown-to-crown spacing between plants and crown-to-structure spacing, noting any ladder-fuel pattern (shrubs or dead material directly under a tree canopy) that could carry fire vertically.
- 5. Note the maintenance condition of each plant or area — dead material buildup, irrigation status, mulch/duff depth — since PNW 590 states plainly that maintenance affects fire behavior more than species selection alone ('fire-resistant does not mean fireproof').
- 6. While walking, watch for any tree structural risk sign (crack, cavity, hanging limb, sudden lean, conks); if seen, note it and cross-route that tree to this library's separate urban_tree_visual_health_check packet and an ISA Certified Arborist — do not assess risk here.
- 7. Compile the findings into a prioritized stewardship plan: Zone 0 violations first, then the closest-and-driest fuels, then spacing and ladder-fuel fixes further out.
- 8. Name, for every item on the plan, the route to have it actually done: a licensed vegetation-management crew, or this repo's own defensible_space_vegetation_clearing labor packet. Never cut, prune, pull, or clear anything as part of this audit, however small.
What counts as done
- Zone 0 (0-5 ft) walked and checked for any combustible plant material or mulch; a violation is flagged as the top-priority line in the plan, never cleared on the spot
- Every plant within the assessed Zone 1 (5-30 ft) and Zone 2 (30-100 ft) area identified by species (or photographed and flagged uncertain) with its flammability characteristics recorded per PNW 590's characteristic framework — moisture content, dead-material retention, resin/oil/aromatic content, growth habit — never a rigid species checklist alone
- Crown-to-crown spacing and crown-to-structure spacing measured or paced off and recorded against the zone's own Firewise separation guidance, including any ladder-fuel pattern (shrubs or dead material directly beneath a tree canopy)
- Maintenance condition noted per plant or area — dead material, irrigation status, mulch/duff depth — since PNW 590 states maintenance drives fire behavior more than species selection alone
- A prioritized stewardship plan recorded (Zone 0 violations first, then closest-and-driest), with every item requiring an actual cut, prune, or removal routed by name to a licensed vegetation-management crew or this board's own defensible_space_vegetation_clearing labor packet — nothing cut, pruned, or cleared as part of this audit
- Any clearing routed to a licensed vegetation-management crew or this board's own labor-side defensible-space clearing packet, never performed under this packet.
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