What’s on this page:
Our Firewise Community • Seeking Recommendations from Neighbors • Free Defensible Space Advising •
Chipping Service • Our Evacuation Route • Firewise Committee • Online Resources
our firewise community and how we qualify
FIREWISE COMMUNITY CERTIFICATE
for the Greater Cement Hill Neighborhood Area
2025 Certificate valid until 12/31/26
2026 Certificate valid 1/1/27 to 12/31/27
To continue to qualify as a Firewise Community, each year we are required to report on the ongoing work (time and money) that residents do to reduce wildfire risks.
for 2027 will be 10/15/27.
Please keep track of your time and money spent making your property fire safe between now and next October, 2027 when your next mitigation form will be due.
You can download and print this form to use as a worksheet.
All residents of our Firewise Community are requested to submit this form, not just active GCHNA members.
Please do not submit any of the forms that have been included in previous newsletters.
WORK DONE TO MAKE OUR
NEIGHBORHOOD MORE FIRE SAFE
SUMMARY OF DATA COMPILED
FROM THE FIRE SAFE MITIGATION FORMS
(2024 – 2026)
~ Number of Forms Submitted ~
2026: 106
2025: 140
2024: 109
~ Total Time Spent ~
2026: 17,813 hours
2025: 18,412 hours
2024: 15,529 hours
~ Total Dollars Spent ~
2026: $1,016,541
2025: $1,233,919
2024: $1,333,822
recommendations - defensible space advice - free chipping
IS AVAILABLE FOR YOUR PROPERTY
We have two neighbors who are CalFire trained Defensible Space Advisors available: Josh Miller and Molly Breen.
If you are interested in having one of them visit your property for an advisory/assessment of how fire safe your property is, please CLICK HERE and fill out the request form.
This is a free service. It is not an inspection, but is for your own benefit, and the report is given only to you.
Have you already had a Defensible Space Advisory visit?
If you have not filled out the form to give us feedback that will help us improve our program, please click here. Thank you!
Have you had people do tree work, brush clearing, landscaping, fencing or construction on your property?
If you had a good experience, and would like to recommend them to others in our neighborhood, please CLICK HERE to provide the information. Thank you!
We haven’t heard anything from OES yet about their free chipping service. Watch your emails – we will let everyone know if we hear something.
OES will not be offering a free green waste bin to our community this fall, winter or spring.
Our neighborhood evacuation route
ABOUT THE EVACUATION ROUTE
If you live along Cement Hill Road, there is only one Emergency Fire Exit Road, which connects the end of Cement Hill Road with Cedarsong Road, then down to Highway 49. This road is on private property and ONLY to be used in the case of an emergency evacuation situation. A wildfire is unpredictable – evacuating early is one thing you can control.
Map with Wildfire Emergency Evacuation Route (in red)
Wildfire Emergency
Evacuation Route
Watch to be familiar with the route in the case of an evacuation.
Thank you
to the property owner who is providing
the emergency easement road!
GCHNA's FIREWISE COMMITTEE
Left to Right: Joy Elson, Mark Ball, Karen Wcislo, Will Hart, Ellen Hagan, Josh Miller. Not pictured, Cheryl Haines.
For more information about the committee, click here.
Left to Right: Will Hart, Joy Elson, Cheryl Haines, Karen Wcislo, Mark Ball. Not pictured, Ellen Hagan and Josh Miller
online resources
- Nevada County READY – View
- Ready Nevada County Emergency Alerts – View
- Ready Nevada County Evacuation Zones – View
- Nevada County Defensible Space Checklist
Click here to view the Ordinance Requirements Checklist - Hazardous Vegetation Ordinance – Read
- Nevada County OES Virtual Office Meeting Videos
(Thanks to Will Hart for the Index!) –
Index and link to view
Wildfire Ready Coalition of Nevada County
California Fair Plan Discounts –
view PDF
YubaNet Click Here
California Fire Safe Council Click Here
CHECKLIST FOR A WILDFIRE PREPARED HOME