Fire Safe Community Benefits for You and Your Community

Benefits and Requirements Explained...

Our Fire Safe Community is being led by Shelly Black, who is utilizing her experience of 20+ years of Volunteer Fire Fighting, 10 years MAU Mounted (all-terrain) Search and Rescue, plus her 30+ years of experience working within the insurance industry, with her own insurance billing business.

Seeing the absolute loss and devastation that happened from ALL the fires in California in 2024-January 2025, Shelly realized that too many people are simply unprepared for disaster situations such as wildfires. Not only are individual residents not adequately prepared – overall communities are not properly prepared, either.  

There are *Safer from Wildfires fire mitigation plans, administered by CalFire that are in place in California that were designed to assist residents in learning and implementing better Wildfire Mitigation practices. 

These programs also provide an opportunity for residents to save money on your insurance policies, as well as, positioning you to be in a National Data Base that insurance companies are required to utilize to identify property’s that are proactively working to prevent financial loss from wildfires. 

As of 10/1/24 the State of California has Mandated that homeowners receive insurance discounts when they meet the mitigation guidelines for Home Hardening Levels 1, 2 + 3 with the largest discounts seen for Level 3 achievements.  Additionally, there are further discounts available for residents who have joined together to create and be qualified as Safer from Wildfire Communities.  *See below for more details about what is needed to create a Safer from Wildfires Community…

Our Fire Safe Community Membership means that I work closely with Your Community - Ever Expanding Your Wildfire Preparedness, Loss Prevention Mitigations, plus Helping You Maintain Affordable & Sustainable Insurance Coverage Options & Rate Reductions. Striving to keep your wildfire preparedness at its peak potential ~ while keeping your home values up ~ and Insurance Rates DOWN. 

Let us join together helping each other expand upon, and fine tune, our current fire preparedness levels, ensuring residents become engaged and familiar with their Neighborhood Wildfire Mitigation needs and Neighborhood Evacuation plans and SO MUCH more...

Fire Safe Community Benefits for You and Your Community:

• Education and personalized guidance regarding necessary Fire Mitigation Practices and actionable recommendations for individuals and their Community/Neighborhoods
• Understanding how to qualify for your Mandated Insurance Reductions for achieving Home Hardening levels: Level 1, Level 2 & Level 3
• Assisting Neighborhoods to successfully understand and implement the Wildfire Mitigations needed to apply for the *Safer from Wildfires Programs
• Walking your Neighborhood/Community thru the application process and requirements needed to qualify for the *Safer from Wildfire Programs
• Understanding how to get your Mandated Insurance Reductions that are achieved once you qualify for the *Safer from Wildfires Community Programs
• Detailed Guidance to ensure that your insurance gives you the required discounts for your individual and Community Fire Mitigation Actions and Achievements
• Connecting Neighbors and local First Responders to develop collaboratively connected Fire Safe Communities  
• Developing personalized and Community wide Wildfire Mitigation Action Plans, plus collaborative Community Evacuation Plans specific to your Neighborhood/Community
• Educational videos and interactive Zoom meetings for ongoing education, Action Plans, and cohesive community engagement

Your Requirements to Participate in Our Fire Safe Community…

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• Attend a minimum of 2 meetings per year via Zoom or online presentations (Many more provided and recommended!)
• Invite your neighbors (at least 7 or more) to join you in becoming a Safer from Wildfires Neighborhood. Start with your closest neighbors, then move outwards until you have a total of 8 or more homes. We will provide you with the necessary tools you need to reach out to neighbors via social media, email, texts, or physical handouts (Do not worry about the neighbors who are not interested, we’re only searching for the ones who want to be proactively working to better your community)
• Complete Your 5 Feet Mitigation Actions and document them on the Forms provided by our Fire Safe Community, then return your completed forms
• Watch your email for Members Only emails coming from Fire Safe Community – MAKE SURE that you mark these emails as “Favorites” so they do not end up in your spam

For those who want to create a Safer from Wildfires Neighborhood themselves (without the help of our Fire Safe Community Membership), here are some of the steps you will need to take...

*The Safer from Wildfire Communities are volunteer programs that anyone can choose to create and/or participate in. To create your own Community requires you finding 7 (or more) local neighbors to join your Neighborhood/Community. Once you have enough neighbors (minimum 8 homes) to be considered a Neighborhood, the Leader then will need to educate these neighbors on all the information that the Safer from Wildfire programs recommend for Wildfire Mitigation Actions, as well as create the needed guidelines for the action plans specific to that Neighborhood. 

Community meetings will need to be held where the Leader provides each of the Neighbors with their necessary plans of action for their individual Wildfire Mitigations. The neighbors will need to take action to complete such mitigation efforts (to the best of their ability, within their individual property’s needs) and then report those efforts back to the Leader.

Once all the Neighbors have completed their Recommended Mitigation Actions, the leader will combine the detailed information from all the properties into a Neighborhood Community Assessment Plan. This Plan will need to document all the neighborhood actions taken for the first year, as well as, create a detailed one-year plan of action outlining the community’s recommended ongoing Mitigation Efforts. This collaborative data will then be combined to represent the overall Community Mitigation efforts and future action plans. The leader then submits their Neighborhood Application to the Safer from Wildfires online portal in hopes of qualifying to be Recognized and/or Certified, (whichever is provided within the Safer from Wildfires Program).  

Once this data is correlated together the Leader will then need to formulate a Community Mitigation Action plan for the next 3 years. The first year addresses the 5 feet of clearance around the home, the second year will be addressing 5-30 from the home and the 3^rd year will be addressing the 30-100 feet around the home.

Members of our Fire Safe Community will benefit from Shelly walking them through ALL of these processes… PLUS assisting you on your mandated insurance discounts and Community Evacuation Plans…