The Shasta County Fire Safe Council is heavily involved in planning, setting priorities and pursuing funding for small to large fuel reduction projects throughout Shasta County.
Shaded Fuel Breaks provide a safer egress for residents and safer ingress for the fire agencies to set up and suppress wild fires within Wildland Urban Interfaces.
Shaded Fuel Break - Before
Shaded Fuel Break - After
Several shaded fuel breaks have been constructed throughout Shasta County. Examples include: the Rock Creek and lower Springs Shaded Fuel Breaks near Old Shasta and west Redding; Walker Mine Shaded Fuel Break near the City of Shasta Lake; Backbone Ridge Shaded Fuel Brak along the south boundary of the Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area; the Shingletown Ridge Road Shaded Fuel Break near Shingletown; the Archer Road Fuel Break near Igo; the Cassel Shaded Fuel Break near Cassel; and numerous others. Other fuel reduction work includes “chipper days” in Lakehead, on O’Brien mountain, and near Shingletown.
Complete Fuel Reduction Plans are available for the following areas upon request:
- Cottonwood Creek
- Keswick basin
- Lower Clear Creek
- Shingletown/ Manton
- Cow Creek
- Lakehead
- Shasta West
- Stillwater-Churn Creek
- French Gulch/ Upper Clear Creek
