Free Home Risk Assessments and Fuel Reduction Services
Shelter Cove
Wildfire Resiliency and Community Defense Project
Trees Foundation is providing project management for this essential work in Shelter Cove, a remote region of the Lost Coast.
The Shelter Cove Wildfire Resiliency and Community Defense (SCWRCD) project is possible thanks to funding from the U.S. Forest Service and the USDA Community Wildfire Defense Grant. The SCWRCD project provides FREE home risk assessments and hazardous fuel reduction services to every parcel in Shelter Cove.
Click here to visit the project interest form. Fill that out to get started, and a member of the team will reach out to you!
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
