Community Chipping Events

Maintaining the legally required 100 feet of defensible space around your property can be a challenge! Once you’ve taken the necessary steps to protect your property by thinning and trimming hazardous brush, you are often left with large piles of dry vegetation, which can themselves become a fire hazard.

Community Chipping Events are designed so that residents can bring their hazardous, flammable materials, to a central location in the community to be chipped and hauled away. 

These events co-hosted by a variety of partners, but always hosted by community Fire Safe Council volunteers! Unless otherwise stated on the map below, community Chipping is funded by the Regional Resilience Grant Program through the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation.

How to prepare for Community Chipping:

• Brush that has been cleared or stacked with heavy equipment will not be chipped.
• Debris MUST originate from your defensible space zone.
• Material including, but not limited to, palm, succulents, and poison oak will not be chipped.
• Old, matted stickers and/or lumber are not eligible for chipping.
• Brush must be free of mud, rocks, and other debris.
• Maximum ten-inch diameter on cut limbs.
• Material must be brought to a central location for chipping services.

 

Upcoming events are listed on the map below. Please note, more will be added in Escondido, Vista, Jamul, and additional communities!