Fire Adapted Landscapes & Safe Homes (FLASH)

Introduction

The Fire-adapted Landscapes & Safe Homes Program, better known as "FLASH", is a cost share program designed to assist property owners with reducing their wildfire risk by managing flammable vegetation around their homes and along key access routes.

February 2025: The FLASH Program has ended and there are no current plans to reopen the program. 

Over 160 landowners participated in the most recent round, treating over 500 acres. Thank you for making Humboldt County safer and more resilient!

  1. 1 Dense and young trees
  2. 2 Limbed up trees
  3. 3 Dense vegetation on a slope
  4. 4 Spaced out trees on slope with home above
  5. 5 High density forest
  6. 6 Low density forest
  7. 7 Dense trees along road
  8. 8 Limbed up trees along road

Program Funding

This grant-funded program has been active intermittently since 2010 and has helped reduce hazardous vegetation on hundreds of acres across Humboldt County. The County was successful in securing additional grant funding from CAL FIRE and the CA Fire Safe Council to expand the program in 2022.

Funding for this project was provided by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) as part of the California Climate Investments Program and the Cooperative Fire Program of the U.S. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Pacific Southwest Region, through California Fire Safe Council (“CFSC”) Grants Clearinghouse Fire Prevention Program. Coordination and support provided by the Humboldt County Fire Safe Council, the County of Humboldt, CAL FIRE, and UC Cooperative Extension.