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Nevada County emergency services lays out 2025 wildfire roadmap, urges removal of excess biomass
Summary
Nevada County’s Office of Emergency Services on Thursday presented a multi‑pronged 2025 plan to prepare residents and reduce wildfire risk, emphasizing removal of excess biomass at the site and landscape scales and a pilot to turn removed material into biochar.
Nevada County’s Office of Emergency Services on Thursday presented a multi-pronged 2025 plan to prepare residents and reduce wildfire risk, emphasizing removal of excess biomass at the site and landscape scales and a pilot to turn removed material into biochar.
Interim Emergency Services Director Alex Keeble Tull told the Board of Supervisors that a “road map to resilience” will guide funding and projects countywide, allowing communities to access FEMA Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and Community Wildfire Defense Grant dollars and to coordinate with federal land managers. “The best way to reduce wildfire risk is to remove excess biomass, Not rearrange, remove,” Keeble Tull said in his presentation.
Why it matters: County staff said more than 92% of Nevada County residents live in high fire hazard severity zones, so fuel-reduction and evacuation work will affect most residents and remain central to several ongoing grant applications and landscape projects.
What the plan…
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