Resources
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Best Practices for Fire Resistant Landscaping
All plants will burn given the right conditions. To minimize the probability of wildfires igniting and spreading in the urban landscape, consider designing and maintaining landscapes as follows.
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Contractors List for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Fire Adapted Ashland offers this landscaping and wildfire fuels reduction services directory as a service to our residents. We make no implied or actual endorsements, recommendations, or certifications as to the performance of any business or individuals in this directory.
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Fact Sheets, Publications & Studies
View and download useful documents.
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Fire-Resistant Fence Connections
When it comes time to build a new fence or replace an old one, within Ashland city limits, Ashland's Wildfire Safety Ordinance states that you are required to obtain a fence permit from Ashland Community Development, and any fencing attached to a building or deck shall be made of noncombustible materials within 5 feet of the connection to the structure.
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Fire Resistant Plants for Home Landscapes (External link)
Reduce wildfire risk with proper plant selection and placement. OSU Extension Catalog - A PNW Extension Publication
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Fire-Resistant Vegetation as Privacy Screening
All plants will burn given the right conditions. To minimize the probability of wildfires igniting and spreading in our community, be mindful of your wildfire risks regarding the type of plants used for privacy screening around your home. Consider the following when designing, planting, or maintaining your privacy screening vegetation.
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Firewise USA
Firewise USA is a national recognition program through the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) that emphasizes homeowner responsibility and community participation in wildfire home safety. It encourages local solutions for reducing wildfire risk by involving homeowners, community leaders, planners, developers, firefighters, and others in an effort to protect people and property from the risk of wildfire.
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Home Inspectors for buying/selling a home
This page provides a list of Rogue Valley Home Inspectors who successfully complete the National Fire Protection Association's (NFPA) 2-day Assessing Structure Ignition Potential from Wildfire course, that took place in June of 2021.
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Landscaping Guidelines Around the Home
The Guidelines for Firewise Landscaping in an Urban Setting was created specifically to help the residents of Ashland to create Firewise landscapes around their homes.
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Wildfire Safety Ordinance
Ashland's setting, history of wildfires, and increasingly long, hot, and dry summers put us at high fire risk each year. One piece of an overall strategy to better protect our community from wildfire was adopted by the City Council in 2018. The expanded and enhanced wildfire safety ordinance now applies to all lots in Ashland, updates standards for development, and restricts new plantings of known flammable trees and shrubs on any lot in the city at any time.