The following programs are designed to help prepare your home and property for the risk of wildfire. From workshops to help you learn how fires behave and what you can do to prepare before disaster strikes, to on-the-ground programs that provide defensible space support, the Fire Safe Council of San Diego County can help.

Defensible Space Assistance Program

For homeowners in our Home Assessment Program service area who want to proacticely create their defensible space but face physical and economic barriers. Our Defensible Space Assistance Program is designed to support you with the creation of defensible space to keep your property safer from wildfire. After completing a home assessment, our contractors will help complete defensible space priorities such as tree trimming and weed abatement.

Compliance Assistance Program

For those who have been cited by their local fire protection district, we may be able to help bring your defensible space into compliance depending on grant funding.

Curbside Chipping Program

Our free curbside chipping program makes a return in a select service area of the county. Residents in our service area can apply to this program to have a chipper sent to their curbside to chip the vegetation cleared from their defensible space.

Community Chipping Events

Creating and maintaining defensible space can be a challenge! Our Community Chipping Events are designed to help you dispose of hazardous vegetative debris from your defensible space zone. Chipping is conducted at community centers and fire stations.