The Yolo County Fire Safe Council February 2025 meeting was on Wednesday, February 26, 2025 via Zoom from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm. A recording of the meeting is available at the link below.
The meeting featured an action item to approve an equipment purchase, fuels reduction project updates, and regular reports from Yolo County Office of Emergency Services (OES), CAL FIRE, Yolo County Resource Conservation District (RCD), Yolo Prescribed Burn Association, Solano RCD, and local community Fire Safe Councils. Notably, Yolo County Office of Emergency Services announced that CAL FIRE has released new Fire Hazard Severity Zone maps for the Local Responsibility Areas of California. In April 2024, CAL FIRE released updated FHSZ maps for the state responsibility area (SRA), the area of Yolo County where Cal Fire is the primary emergency response agency responsible for fire suppression and prevention. Now, CAL FIRE has released update FHSZ maps for the local responsibility areas (LRA), the area of Yolo County where the local government (city, county, etc.) is primarily responsible for fire prevention and suppression. Fire Hazard Severity Zones fall into one of the following classifications: very high, high, and moderate. Check out the new recommended LRA FHSZ map below:
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Additionally, Yolo County RCD announced the release of the new defensible space video entitled “Defensible Space: Your Community’s Shield Against Wildfire”. The video was funded thanks to a County Coordinator Grant from the California Fire Safe Council and features Battalion Chief Trevyn Close, Mike and Kristen Webster from Capay Valley Fire Safe Council, and narration by Capay Valley FPD Chief Jesse Capitanio. To watch video, check it out on our Defensible Space webpage, linked here.