Fire Adapted Ashland
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Best Practices for Fire Resistant Landscaping
All plants will burn given the right conditions. To minimize the probability of wildfires igniting and spreading in the urban landscape, consider designing and maintaining landscapes as follows.
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CERT Volunteer Program
Ashland's CERT program has trained over 1500 volunteers to be better prepared to survive a disaster making Ashland's program one of the most successful in the nation. CERT has been mobilized thirty-four times for activities ranging from managing emergency shelters to evacuating residents during wildfires. CERT's competency is "preparing our community to endure disasters."
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Contractors List for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Fire Adapted Ashland offers this landscaping and wildfire fuels reduction services directory as a service to our residents. We make no implied or actual endorsements, recommendations, or certifications as to the performance of any business or individuals in this directory.
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Our Partners
The entire community of Ashland is at risk to wildfire. The goal of Fire Adapted Ashland is to help all of Ashland prepare for wildfire, including before, during and after the fire.
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Preparing for Wildfire
Decades of research and experience from past fires say wildfire loss is preventable, though wildfires themselves are inevitable. Find out more about what you can do to become more fire resilient.
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Prohibited Flammable Plants
Learn more about Ashland's Prohibited Plants list related to Ashland Municipal Code Chapter 9.04.022.
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Reducing Wildfire Risk
During a wildfire, falling embers are a major cause of home ignition. It is important that embers do not find a place to land where they can ignite your home or the surrounding landscape.
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Resources
Find information, contractor lists, Factsheets, research publications, Fire-Resistant Fence Alternatives, and more.
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Ashland Wildfire Mitigation Project
Ashland Fire & Rescue and the City of Ashland were awarded a $3 million Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) grant as a part of its Pre-Disaster Mitigation Grant Program. This grant aims to create wildfire-defensible space around 1,100 homes throughout the city. The objective of the Pre-Disaster Mitigation (PDM) program is to reduce overall risk to the population and structures from future hazard events as well as reduce reliance on federal funding from future disasters.
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Smokewise Ashland
Learn about how to protect yourself and your family when smoke is in the air, create clean air spaces, understanding the air quality index, and more.
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Wildfire Safety Ordinance
The Wildfire Safety Ordinance was passed in Sept. of 2018, expanding the Wildfire Hazard Zone to encompass the entire city of Ashland. New vegetation mitigation and management requirements also went into effect, including the prohibition of planting listed plants within 30-feet of structures.
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Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project
Learn about our important and ongoing work for the benefit of people and forests.
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Fire Adapted Ashland provides this list as a service only. The City of Ashland, Ashland Fire & Rescue, and the Fire Adapted Communities Program make no implied or actual endorsements, recommendations, and/or certifications as to the performance of any business or individuals in our directory.
View the Contractors List for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Landowners and users of this directory are encouraged to request references and documentation of all applicable licenses and/or insurance coverages prior to entering into agreements with the businesses and individuals listed.
As part of working within the City of Ashland, it is important for contractors to understand the Ashland-specific ordinances that may impact what work can be done within City Limits. Listed contractors reviewed wildfire related ordinance items and acknowledged that they are aware of the various ordinances that may impact the work they may be completing in Ashland.
Prepare your property for fire season by:
- Cleaning up tree litter from your roof, rain gutters, and around the base of walls.
- Remove bark mulch within 5-feet of walls, decks, wood staircases, and other wood structures.
- Clean up tree litter around your property; remove green debris from grown covers, out from under larger shrubs and decks, from around outdoor storage and wood piles.
- Move firewood piles at least 30-feet away from buildings, including neighbors' structures (or as far as space allows on your property). Do not store firewood under conifer trees.
- Strongly consider removing flammable shrubs like juniper, arbor vitae, cypress, coniferous shrubs, bamboo thickets, or overgrown rosemary within 30-feet of any structure.
- Prune tree branches away from your roofline. Establish a minimum of 10-feet horizontal and vertical clearance of any conifer branches from your roofline or wood decks.
Check out our Reducing Wildfire Risk pages for more resources and information.
Fire season is quickly approaching. Help our community be prepared by cutting and removing all weeds and tall grass on your property by June 1st. Enforcement procedures for Weed Abatement will begin June 15th.
- Keep weeds and grasses 4-inches or less in height throughout fire season (AMC9.04.020).
- Do not plant flammable plants within 30-feet of any building or allow volunteer conifer saplings like cedar or pines to grow in this zone either (AMC9.04.022).
- Keep Oregon Noxious Weeds from propagating or spreading on your property. Especially Scotch Broom, bull thistle, Himalayan blackberry, and Tree of Heaven (AMC9.04.024).
- Stay aware of gas-powered equipment use restrictions as fire season progresses.