
Evacuation & Safety
- Humboldt Emergency Services
- Sign up for Humboldt Alert
- Evacuation Checklist
- Humboldt Restricted Area Access Pass Program: Traditional Ag, Livestock or Cannabis Growers can apply to gain access to an evacuated area to tend to their operations.
- KMUD Fire Resources - For Humboldt, Mendocino, and Trinity County up-to-date wildfire information
- CDC Recommendations for Wildfire Smoke
Property Development & Maintenance
Home Hardening (Adapting your home to resist wildfire)
- Low Cost Retrofitting
- Complete Retrofit Guide
- Wildfire Resistant Home Cost Analysis
- CA Building Codes - Materials and Construction Methods for Exterior Wildfire Exposure
Roads
- Reflective Address Signs - Make sure emergency services can find you
- Green reflective sign with reflective 4 inch letters
- Road Association Formation Guide
- UC Rural Roads Construction & Maintenance Guide
Water
Insurance


Property Development & Maintenance
Defensible Space
- CAL FIRE Landowner Assistance Hub
- Living With Wildfire 3rd Edition - pages 28-33
- FLASH Fire-Adapted Landscapes & Safe Homes
- A Humboldt County fuels reduction cost rebate program
- Also reimburses landowners for doing the work themselves, project must be inspected and approved prior to work
- FAQ
- Requirements
- Survey / Interest Form
- SoHum Defensible Space Professionals for Hire
- Created and currated by Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council
- Air Quality Burn Permit - required year-round for burn piles
- Today's Burn Day Status Call 866-BURN-DAY
- Burn Zone 1: Coastal (within 5 miles of coast)
- Burn Zone 2: Inland below 2,000 feet elevation
- Burn Zone 3: Inland above 2,000 feet elevation
- Today's Burn Day Status Call 866-BURN-DAY
- CAL FIRE LE-5 Burn Permit - required starting May 1st
- If online portal doesn’t work Call your local CAL FIRE station
PG&E Resources
Vegetation Management Program Hotline: (707) 449-5859
Private Landowner Rights & PG&E Easements
PG&E Assistance Programs
- Backup Generator Rebate Program - find rebates tab
- Backup Power Transfer Meter - free program to install a cable that links your generator to your house electrical panel
- Portable Battery Program - continuous power options tab
- Medical Baseline Program - financial assistance/other support tab


California Forest Improvement Program (CFIP)
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- The program scope includes the improvement of all forest resources including fish and wildlife habitat, and soil and water quality. Cost-share assistance is provided to private and public ownerships containing 20 to 5,000 acres of forest land. Cost-shared activities include:
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- Preparation of a Forest Management Plan by a Registered Professional Forester (RPF)
- RPF Supervision of the following:
- Reforestation
- Site Preparation
- Trees and Planting
- Tree Shelters
- Stand Improvement
- Pre-commercial Thinning or Release
- Pruning
- Follow-up (includes mechanical, herbicide and/or slash disposal follow-up)
- Forestland conservation practices / fish and wildlife habitat improvement
- Reforestation
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- Broadcast/controlled/cultural burning is not eligible for CFIP cost share.
Conservation Easement Information
USDA Farm Service Agency Programs
Humboldt County Farm Service Agency
5630 S Broadway St
Eureka, CA 95503-6998
(707) 832-5577
- Disaster Assistance Programs
- Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
- Provides payments to livestock producers impacted by fire or drought
- Information Sheet
- Emergency Forest Restoration Program (EFRP)
- Up to 75% cost share for post-fire or natural disaster forest remediation
- Information Sheet
- Livestock Forage Disaster Program (LFP)
- Conservation Programs
- Conservation Reserve Program
- Pays producers to set aside environmentally sensitive land
- Information Sheet
- Homepage
- Conservation Reserve Program
