Fire Hazard Severity Zones- Presentation and Public Comment – Join Fire Marshal Chris Bachman for a presentation on the updated Local Responsibility Area maps with an opportunity to provide public comment before the maps are adopted by Contra Costa Fire.
In Person: April 1, 2025, 6-7:00pm, 1025 Escobar St., Martinez
Or join online – Passcode: 993223
The public comment period is open now and available at: https://www.cccfpd.org/lra-maps/
Lots of people gonna get dropped or see significant increases sortly. Looks like I will be one of them…..
What about fire hazard observations in our local neighborhood’s? Seen several potential yards that could light up a whole street…even more obvious now after seeing what happened in L.A.
There is a webpage to figure out who is responsible for the land, and then you report them to the fire department online. I’ll see if I can find it again. Even if you can’t figure out the person, just report the fire hazzard, every week if necessary to get it dealt with before fire season starts.
We used to live in Dana Hills and have since relocated to southern Oregon. There has been a lot of controversy surrounding a wildfire hazard risk map here and many have had their homeowners’ insurance cancelled or the premiums increased by exorbitant amounts. Fortunately our homeowners’ insurance didn’t increase much this year, nor were we cancelled. I see the same thing happening in California and suggest that you begin looking for alternate homeowners’ insurance in the event your premiums increase too much or your insurance is cancelled completely.
Yes … I’ve posted on this before but here goes again ..myself and many of my neighbors were rezoned into “High Risk”. The primary reason is that the city of WC has a series of eucalyptus and non-native trees along the CCC trail in WC (on city property) and despite their pledges to remove the “gasoline trees” (CCC Fire Dept description) they haven’t done anything in over 3 yrs. Other cities and counties are removing them even though they are healthy due to the high fire hazard they present. I’ve met with the WC mayor and staff – nothing is being done. The CCC fire Dept. can’t “force” the city to remove them at this point. CCC Fire Dept. will commitment to working with the city of WC if the city requests the assistance and commits resources to work with the fire dept. – which hasn’t been done. CalFire issued the new maps not CCC Fire – I don’t think much will be done to change them.
That’s not cool. The city should be forced to pay your extra insurance costs until they remove their known fire hazard trees.