As we wrap up our pile burning efforts for this season, we would like to say THANK YOU to our community for your support and cooperation over the past four months as we conducted pile burn operations. We thank you for your patience and understanding with the short-term smoke impacts, realizing that improving forest health and fire safety are the long-term benefits.
In addition to our community, we would also like to say THANK YOU to our agency partners Incline General Improvement District (IVGID), Nevada Division of Forestry (NDF), Nevada Division of State Lands (NDSL), NV Energy, and US Forest Service (USFS) for successful coordination and support in meeting our overall objectives to provide for public fire safety and forest health improvement.
Our statistics for the 2021/2022 field season to date:
- 98 acres hand thinned
- 153 acres pile burned
- NV Energy – 1400 poles, 55 powerlines right of way acres treated
- Chipping – 271 residences
- Defensible Space Evaluations – 812 inspections conducted with 314 compliant
With spring around the corner, we anticipate starting up our curbside chipping and defensible space evaluation services in May. Please visit our website for updates and to sign up. Another key component to creating effective defensible space is to ensure the built environment, as well as the non-combustible area of your home, is free of fire hazards. Please refer to the Home Vulnerability form that may be included if needed, during the defensible space evaluation.
For more information on home hardening please refer to the Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide.
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