Coconino County sits in high wildfire country and requires defensible space in its wildland-urban interface. Owners follow Firewise clearance — a lean, clean zone at the home extending outward roughly 30 to 100 feet — plus county WUI code standards.
Unlike the desert, Coconino County's forested lots carry serious wildfire risk, and the county's wildland-urban interface (WUI) standards and zoning fire-protection provisions require Firewise vegetation management around homes. The goal is defensible space: a maintained lean-and-clean zone right around the structure, thinning and spacing of trees and shrubs outward to about 30 to 100 feet, removal of dead needles and ladder fuels, and branches trimmed away from roofs and chimneys. Fire districts and the Flagstaff Fire Department offer free defensible-space assessments. Slash from thinning must be chipped, hauled, or pile-burned only by permit outside fire season.
Failing to maintain required defensible space in a WUI area can bring county code-compliance notices and correction orders, and leaves a home far more likely to be lost, or its insurance dropped, when fire moves through.
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