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Related Links
- Senate Bill 360
- FireFree - Project Wildfire
- Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch
- ODF Weather & Fire Danger
- USFS Fire Active Map
- Geomac Wildland Fire Support
- Northwest Interagency Coordination Center
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The community of Sunriver is located within the Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI). The WUI is defined by the National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program as "any location where a fire can spread from vegetation (wildland fuels) to buildings (urban fuels) resulting in multiple house fires"
When Environmental Services staff inspect properties for wildfire risk, we look at both wildland fuels and urban fuels. One of the most common urban fuels here are woodpiles. Though necessary for wood burning stoves, woodpiles pose one of the biggest threats to structures in the event of wildfire.
Research and experience supports the theory that firebrands (burning materials transported by wind) are one of the main causes of wildfire home ignitions within the WUI, and that most structures burn down 24 to 48 hours AFTER a wildfire goes through. One of the reasons is the transport and landing of firebrands onto a fuel/ignition source. In the case of woodpiles, the firebrands slowly smolder within the spaces formed by stacked wood and then lead to combustion.
What can you do to protect your home and the community? Keep your woodpile at least 20 feet away from your structure or to your farthest property line.
got defensible space?
Move woodpiles at least 20 feet away from decks/structures or to your farthest property line.
got defensible space?
No permit is required to clear bitterbrush within 15 feet of a structure.
got defensible space?
No permit is required to thin lodgepole seedlings (4 inches or less in diameter)
to six to eight foot spacing on your property.
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