Your property’s fire risk — understood, documented, and addressed.
Cal Wildfire Defense helps homeowners reduce wildfire risk with comprehensive assessments that combine fire behavior, current regulations, building standards, and leading industry guidance into practical recommendations that prioritize the work with the greatest impact—while helping you prepare for changing codes, insurance expectations, and future wildfire risk.
Serving San Diego County and backcountry. Appointments available this week.
Defensible space is not a landscaping problem. It is a fire behavior problem.
The difference between cleared land and genuinely defensible land is understanding how fire approaches your specific property — where it accelerates, where embers land, what it finds when it arrives at your structure. That understanding comes from fire science, not a checklist. It is what every CWD service is built around.
What You Get From a Wildfire Risk Walk
A Wildfire Fire Risk Walk is a, non-regulatory risk assessment for San Diego homeowners. We walk your property with you and translate inspection language, local defensible space rules, and real fire behavior into a clear picture of what matters on your specific parcel.
Inspection Clarity
Understand where you may pass or fail a CAL FIRE or local Fire Department inspection. We review your property against LE100 and LE200 expectations so you know what an inspector is likely to flag — before they show up.
Fire Behavior Context
See how a wildfire would actually approach your home. We look at slope, prevailing wind, fuel continuity, and surrounding land so the risk picture matches reality, not just a checklist.
Clear Next Steps
Walk away knowing what needs to be fixed, what does not, and what you can handle yourself. If professional mitigation is needed, CWD can quote the work and get contractors onsite
Three categories. Complete wildfire preparedness services.
From assessment, to defensible space, to home hardening. Every Cal Wildfire Defense service is scoped to your property’s actual fire risk and your local rules.
Assessment & Planning
In-person evaluations and formal documentation that tell you where your property stands and what to do next. Where most customers start.
Defensible Space & Vegetation
Physical vegetation management by fire-informed crews — clearing the fuels that carry fire toward your home.
Home Hardening
Structure upgrades that stop embers and radiant heat — the details that decide whether a home survives.
Where to go from here
Not sure what you need? These are the right next steps.
Wildfire Services
The full services hub — all nine services, how they connect, and how to choose where to start.
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CWD serves San Diego County — from the coast to the backcountry. See where we work.
See service areas →Wildfire Education
Want to understand fire behavior, defensible space zones, and the science behind the work before you call?
Visit the education site →Ready to Walk Your Property?
A Property Fire Risk Walk is the fastest way to get a clear, independent picture of your fire risk and a prioritized plan you can act on. No sales pitch. No pressure. Just what your property needs.
Already know you need a deeper evaluation? Request a Structure Hardening Assessment