Mendocino County Fire Safe Council

Mendocino County Fire Safe Council Our mission is to inform, empower, and mobilize communities and residents to survive and thrive in a wildfire-prone environment. www.FireSafeMendocino.org

To inform, empower, and mobilize communities and residents to survive and thrive in fire-prone environments.

Happy National Dog Day! Today, we want to take a moment to encourage you to think about emergency preparedness for your ...
08/26/2026

Happy National Dog Day! Today, we want to take a moment to encourage you to think about emergency preparedness for your furry family members. 🐕🐾🐈

Take some time and create an animal evacuation plan for every animal within your care. Pets take more time and planning to gather, secure, and transport during an emergency evacuation, so it's always best to be prepared.📝

Start thinking through your pet evacuation plan today using our section on animal preparedness in our brand new brochure! Click the link to access the brochure: https://www.firesafemendocino.org/s/Mega-Brochure-Formatted-for-Printing.pdf. 🔗

The Redwood Valley Rancheria was evacuated and lost two homes in the 2017 Redwood Complex Fires. Since then, they have b...
08/24/2026

The Redwood Valley Rancheria was evacuated and lost two homes in the 2017 Redwood Complex Fires. Since then, they have been proactively planning for better outcomes in case of future wildfires. 🚒🔥

Our crew and equipment joined them for a Community Work Party in early June, to successfully reduce densely overgrown vegetation near homes on the edge of the neighborhood. 🦺🪚🌲

If you’re interested in a Community Work Party to address a hazard in your own neighborhood, we can help! Click the link below to learn more. 🔗

Pictured above is our in-house fuels crew and RV Rancheria members. This program is funded by the State Coastal Conservancy with Prop 4 Climate Bond funds.

🔗Link to learn more about having your own Community Work Party: https://www.firesafemendocino.org/community-work-party

🔗Click the link to read more in our blogpost! https://www.firesafemendocino.org/the-latest/redwood-valley-rancheria-and-mcfsc-team-up-for-wildfire-preparedness

Are your animals prepped and ready for emergencies or natural disasters? 🐎🐕To learn how you can prepare your animals, jo...
08/21/2026

Are your animals prepped and ready for emergencies or natural disasters? 🐎🐕

To learn how you can prepare your animals, join the Halter Project and Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center for a FREE workshop! Check the flyer for more info.

🐾TIME: Friday, August 28th from 1-3pm

🐾LOCATION: Giant Steps Therapeutic Equestrian Center; 7600 Lakeville Hwy, Petaluma, CA

🐾RSVP to Julie Larsen at [email protected]

The Albion Little River Fire Safe Council has created a thoughtful Welcome Packet to orient new neighbors to realities a...
08/21/2026

The Albion Little River Fire Safe Council has created a thoughtful Welcome Packet to orient new neighbors to realities and resources related to their wildfire-prone environment. 🚒🔥

The packet includes information on emergency alert systems, defensible space, home-hardening, evacuation planning, Red Flag days, and much more. 🚨They also shared the guide with local real estate agents to give to new community members. 🏠👨‍👩‍👧

We applaud this example of proactive community preparedness, and encourage other local groups to do the same. Well done, Albion Little River FSC!

Click the link to read the packet:https://static1.squarespace.com/static/664e7260b45550065d6a4423/t/6a31c7b64cee0f4ff630eb74/1781647286751/Welcome+Home+Packet+2026+Final.pdf

Mobile home parks (MHPs) are uniquely vulnerable to wildfire. They make up 3.6% of California housing, but a highly disp...
08/18/2026

Mobile home parks (MHPs) are uniquely vulnerable to wildfire. They make up 3.6% of California housing, but a highly disproportionate 22% of homes lost to wildfire.

About half are also in high to extreme fire-severity zones and/or composed of very low-income households. Worse yet, high density increases fire spread; current recommendations are not geared to dense housing; and MHP residents often have little control over their exterior landscaping.

Last year, MCFSC began using some of our own resources to focus on these communities. We recently received a grant from the North Coast Resource Partnership that will help support our effort to develop resources specifically for dense-housing situations.

We piloted this effort with the Little Lake Mobile Home Park, adjacent to a densely forested area north of Willits, where we hosted an informational meeting, conducted a survey, provided refreshments, encouraged neighborhood connections, and assisted with their Community Work Party. 🪚🌲

A few MHP-related recommendations are shown below. Click this link to read more in our blogpost: https://www.firesafemendocino.org/the-latest/little-lake-mobile-home-park-gets-to-work.

MCFSC’s Dense-Housing Wildfire Safety Project is supported by the North Coast Resource Partnership, funded by the California Department of Conservation. MCFSC's Community Work Party Program is supported by the California State Coastal Conservancy, with funding from the California Proposition 4 Climate Bond.

Local Firefighters Join Strike Teams 🔥🚒For major wildfires requiring a military-style “campaign” to combat, California’s...
08/14/2026

Local Firefighters Join Strike Teams 🔥🚒

For major wildfires requiring a military-style “campaign” to combat, California’s mutual aid system calls in firefighters from far-flung locations, providing both income and challenges for local departments.

Pictured above is Hopland Fire Department Chief Mitch Franklin with a 2008 Type III engine. Read more about this by visiting our blogpost/podcast through the link below!

https://www.firesafemendocino.org/the-latest/the-risks-and-rewards-of-neighbors-helping-neighbors

Five Mendocino County agencies were recently added to CAL FIRE’s biennial Fire Risk Reduction Communities list of only 1...
08/11/2026

Five Mendocino County agencies were recently added to CAL FIRE’s biennial Fire Risk Reduction Communities list of only 119 agencies in 58 counties statewide – giving Mendocino more than double the state average per county!

The agencies that qualified are the: Albion Little River Fire Protection District, Elk Community Services District, Leggett Valley Fire Protection District, Long Valley Fire Protection District, and Round Valley Indian Tribes – the only tribal nation in California that made the list.

This designation recognizes leadership in meeting strict best-practices criteria for wildfire planning and community risk-reduction in very high hazard zones - and means they now qualify for higher priority in receiving state grant funding, as well as potentially lower insurance premiums in their areas.

If you live within one of these Districts, call your insurer, mention the designation, and see whether you qualify for a lower premium.

Congratulations and thanks to these groups for their hard work!

In rural areas, schools often become a default refuge zone during community disasters. To help ensure the greatest possi...
07/27/2026

In rural areas, schools often become a default refuge zone during community disasters. To help ensure the greatest possible safety for wildfire evacuees, we recently teamed up with PG&E to reduce overgrown vegetation on about 15 acres around the Leggett Valley School, which also serves as a designated CERT location and evacuation center.

The project will reduce fire risk and improve overall safety – and does even more good for the community by contracting with the Leggett Fire Dept to perform the work. This helps increase capacity in their District, provides an opportunity for their personnel to get familiar with this vital emergency facility and its staff, and provides an income stream for volunteer firefighters in a challenging rural economy.

Investing in schools as fortified refuges is helping us foster a stronger, more resilient community.

On June 2, the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians conducted a cultural burn led by tribal member and cultural fire lea...
07/09/2026

On June 2, the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians conducted a cultural burn led by tribal member and cultural fire leader Tom Campbell, along with members of the Hybrid Indigenous Stewardship (HIS).

This was the Tribe's third cultural burn, after over 100 years of suppression of cultural fire on their homelands. The intention was to improve forest health and deer habitat, and increase the abundance of cultural foods, fibers, and medicines.

Tribal members from multiple tribes, HIS crews, community members, Sherwood EPA staff, and more collaborated to ensure that the fire achieved its objectives. Emily Lord and Maria Esser from MCFSC were also invited to learn about cultural fire and to help keep the fire "low and slow" using only hand tools with intention and purpose.

We encourage everyone to "prep" for emergencies and pack a go-kit for fast evacuation, but this NY Times editorial linke...
07/06/2026

We encourage everyone to "prep" for emergencies and pack a go-kit for fast evacuation, but this NY Times editorial linked in the comments emphasizes perhaps the most important component of preparedness: community connections.

Neighbors knowing and helping each other is often the main factor in surviving a crisis, and this article is a great reminder that “what keeps us safe isn’t the stuff we pack or stockpile; it’s the community we build before calamity strikes.”

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