Mount Veeder Fire Safe Council Neighbors in Need Defensible Space Assistance Program
—Helping eligible Mount Veeder area residents create a defensible space around their homes and take steps to reduce the risk of wildfire at no cost to the homeowners
Mt. Veeder Fire Safe Council is also a recognized Firewise USA Site!
Providing the certificate to your insurance provider **MAY** result in a small discount on your fire insurance. You can help keep us in good standing with Firewise USA by tracking and reporting the time and dollars you invest in your home’s defensible space and hardening your home against wildfire.
2024 Mt Veeder Fire Safe Council Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
The memorable 2024 Annual Pancake Breakfast and Neighborhood Meeting
Sunday May 19, 2024—Thank you to everyone that turned out, Bill Robertson who organized the event and the great contributions from speakers Sup Ryan Gregory, Fire Administrator Dave Shew, Battalion Chief Ryan Isham, Deputy Fire Marshall Erick Hernandez, Fire Captain Ken Van Oeveren and Firewise CEO Joe Nordlinger.
Napa County's Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
Maps Include:
CWPP Boundary
Topography
Watersheds
Roads
Vegetation
Public Ownership
Wildfire is coming… Are you READY?
Residential Wildfire Risk evaluation
The Mount Veeder Fire Safe Council can provide a complimentary wildfire risk evaluation of your property. We will evaluate your property’s access, defensible space, water sources, and do a structure risk assessment. This information will determine what steps you can take to reduce your risk and give firefighters the best chance to defend your home during a wildfire event.
What’s Next
A MVFSC representative will contact you to schedule a visit. You or your designated representative must be present for the evaluation.
MVFSC and Our Collaborators
Our area has hundreds of houses, many on narrow dead-end roads with severe access and egress issues. Much of the area is forested, with a heavy accumulation of underbrush and other ladder fuel that can take a small fire up into the treetops and turn it into a conflagration.
The Mount Veeder Fire Safe Council (MVFSC) is a group of local residents and property owners who work together with the Dry Creek-Lokoya Volunteer Fire Department and organizations like the Napa Communities Fire Wise Foundation to reduce the risk of wildland fire. Our goals are to undertake fuel reduction projects, to increase awareness of the risk of wildland fire and of what can be done to reduce that risk. To that end, we have drafted a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) that analyzes the fire risk and identifies specific projects. We are an inclusive group and we encourage the collaboration of the entire Mount Veeder community in this endeavor.
Our website is focused on providing information specific to the Mount Veeder, Dry Creek, Lokoya, Redwood, and Wall Road neighborhoods and the activities of the Mount Veeder Fire Safe Council.
Help Us With A Donation
The MVFSC provides many fire reduction programs and your donations directly help with those programs!
MVFSC is a 501(c)(3) organization and donations are tax-deductible to the full extent provided by law.