Availability will be limited, so registrations will be accepted on a first-come, first-served basis. A waitlist will be made available when registration reaches capacity.
The Santa Clara County FireSafe Council Chipping Program is designed to encourage and support homeowners in creating and maintaining the required defensible space around their homes.
Required defensible space clearing is 0-100 feet (Zones 0-2) from permanent structures.
The program’s goal is to reduce fuel loads and wildfire risk to prevent and mitigate future wildfires.
The program is FREE to WUI residents.
*Los Altos Hills County Fire District residents, please use the LAHCFD Chipping registration.
At Home Chipping – Residents sign up for a scheduled chipping event to be performed at their home. Brush must be prepared in advance of the scheduled chipping event and must meet all specified guidelines.
Drive Up Chipping Event – A date the community has previously selected, at a location within the community, residents drive the brush up in their own vehicle, it is chipped on the spot, and you haul away your own chips. This event is NOT a roadside pickup program.
Chipping Registration Opens September 8th – if no dates are available for your address, then no chipping events have been scheduled.
To make our Chipping Program successful we ask that you help to make the process as seamless as possible by following the guidelines below.
We are now implementing a no-show policy for all residents. Failure to cancel a registration or notify SCCFSC staff that you are no longer able to participate ahead of the scheduled event may result in a temporary suspension for next season’s program.
Cut ends must face the same direction and point out towards street.
Pile location must be within 10 feet of the residential street on public right of way on level ground.
Pile must be accessible and not behind a locked gate.
Limbs must be under 4 inches in diameter (thickness).
Piles must be less than 4 feet in height.
Piles must be no more than 100 cubic yards per registered resident. *If your pile is over 100 cubic yards, some material may be left behind.
No broom or acacia with seed pods, or other invasive plant materials.
No piles of leaves, pine needles or yard clippings. Only woody brush/ branches.
No blackberry vines, or poison oak/ivy.
No timber harvest debris, vineyard or orchard waste.
No painted, preserved, or finished lumber, trash.
No palm fronds, roots, stumps, rocks or mud.
Thank you to our sponsors for securing funding to support our chipping program!
