Service · Clallam County and Jefferson County
Defensible space before fire season, not during it
Serving Clallam County and Jefferson County
Sequim sits in the driest spot in western Washington. By August the grass is brown, the salal is crispy, and a stray spark has options. Defensible space work stacks the odds back in your favor: fuels stepped down and spaced out so a ground fire has no ladder to climb into the crowns over your roof.
01 — What the work looks like
In the zone nearest your home we clear dead and dying vegetation, lift tree crowns six to ten feet off the ground, take out the ladder fuels — the brush and low limbs that carry ground fire up into the canopy — and open spacing between crowns so fire cannot jump tree to tree toward the house. Further out, it shifts to thinning and cleanup of dead material.
The result reads less like logging and more like a park: the healthy trees stay, spaced and lifted, and the property is easier to walk, mow, and defend. It pairs naturally with view pruning and brush clearing — often it is the same visit.
02 — Guidance we follow
We work to the defensible-space zone guidance published by Washington DNR and Firewise. If your insurer has sent one of those letters about vegetation and coverage, bring it to the estimate — we will build the scope directly against what they are asking for.
Timeline
Book fall through spring if you can — it is better work in the wet season and the calendar fills before summer.
What drives the price
Lot size and how much fuel is on it. A cleared acre with a few ladder fuels is quick; a wooded lot that has never been thinned is a project.
Every job is quoted onsite, free, and in writing before anything is scheduled.
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