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Board of Directors Meetings

When: The first Wednesday of every month from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Where: Zoom or in-person Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/82599712750 Meeting ID: 825 9971 2750 One tap mobile +16694449171,,82599712750# US[...]

BCSFC 2024 Year in Review

Looking back on a year of growth, challenge, and community, a snapshot of the Butte County Fire Safe Council’s programs and projects in 2024. Download Document:

Butte County WUI Fire History Map 2000-2024

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Forest Management Plans

Forest Management Plans discuss how to effectively manage forest land in order to help mitigate loss due to wildfire. Links to websites and PDF downloads are both available below. A[...]

Fire-safe Landscaping 101

Your guide to maintaining a beautiful and fire-safe landscape around your home. 

Safer From Wildfires Program

Learn how you can save money on insurance through the Safer From Wildfires Program For questions about the program in Butte County, contact our county representative at Lisa.strange@insurance.ca.gov  

Emergency Preparedness Trifold

Town of Paradise Reseeding Plan 2021

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Butte County Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) 2021-2025

The Butte County Community Wildfire Protection Plan: • Was collaboratively developed. Interested parties, Federal, State, City, Town, and County agencies within the Unit have been consulted and are listed in[...]

LISTOS Disaster Ready Guide

Available in multiple languages for download at https://www.listoscalifornia.org/resources/ We have printed copies available at our office.

Butte County Chapter 38A Requirements

(Checklist on page 2 of document.) Property owners who fail to comply with Defensible Space and fuel reduction requirements are in violation of the Butte County Chapter 38A Fire Prevention[...]

Forest Health Guidebook

Our New Forest Health Guidebook is available in PDF and hard copy formats. The guidebook serves as a handy reference for Butte County residents and details the types of forests[...]

Grazing Management Plan

The primary goal of the Grazing Management Plan is to establish a sustainable, fire-safe landscape that balances vegetation growth and removal to manage undesirable, invasive, flammable plant species. Download the[...]

Big Chico Creek Forest Health Plan

Maintaining Defensible Space and Your Shaded Fuel Break

Butte County’s Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)

Map by Butte County Resource Conservation District 3/16/2022 Acres of WUI in Butte County: 463,000  

Forest Management Handbook for Small-Parcel Landowners in the Sierra Nevada and Southern Cascade Range

From the Forest Service U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE December, 2021 Peter A. Stine, Steven M. Ostoja, and Stewart McMorrow    

The Butte Forested Watersheds Plan

From the Butte County Resource Conservation District: The Butte Forested Watersheds Plan  (“Butte Forests Plan” for short) is our local forest health community’s collaborative vision for “the next forest.”  Summarizing[...]

PG&E Vegetation Management FAQ

In partnership with the Vegetation Management Team at PG&E, the following Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) sheet was developed from questions posed by the community of Forest Ranch. This partnership was[...]

Doom the Broom

The Terribly Tenacious Broom   Quick to sprout and grow into attractive, yellow-blooming shrubs after wildfires, broom in turn greatly increases future wildfire danger. Plants are highly flammable. Young shrubs quickly[...]