Planning · Cal Wildfire Defense
Fire Evacuation Plan
From $999
When fire threatens, you need to know exactly what to do — before it happens.
The Fire Evacuation Plan is a written plan for getting out safely — mapped routes, realistic timing, and protocols for everyone and everything on your property. Designed to be on a wall or in a vehicle. Designed to work under pressure.
What it is
This is the only CWD service about getting out.
Every other CWD service is about protecting your property — clearing fuel loads, hardening the structure, documenting your defensible space strategy. The Fire Evacuation Plan is different. It is about protecting the people and animals on your property when fire is approaching and the window to act is closing.
Evacuation sounds simple until the moment it isn’t. The route you always use may not be passable when fire is moving. Loading livestock takes longer than you expect when the animals can smell smoke. The road that’s fine for a car may not work for a trailer. The person responsible for the animals may not be home. A plan that accounts for all of this — developed in advance, with the routes walked and evaluated — is worth having before you need it.
This plan is for anyone who occupies a property in a fire area.
You do not need to own the property. You do not need to have completed any other CWD service. If you live, work, or keep animals on a property in a fire-prone area of San Diego County — this plan is for you.
The Fire Evacuation Plan is also the only CWD service that carries direct personal safety implications in an active emergency. It is produced carefully, evaluated against real fire conditions rather than normal driving conditions, and priced to reflect the responsibility that comes with getting it right.
Who it’s for
Broader than you might think.
The Fire Evacuation Plan is relevant to a wider range of customers than any other CWD service:
- Homeowners in rural and semi-rural areas with limited or complex egress — a single road in and out, a gate that takes time to open, terrain that limits route options.
- Horse and livestock owners — for whom evacuation is not just getting in a car, but loading animals that may be frightened, coordinating trailers, and sequencing who goes first.
- Renters in fire-prone areas who want to know their evacuation options regardless of what the property owner has or hasn’t done.
- Businesses with employees and customers on-site in fire hazard areas — particularly those with animals, limited-mobility occupants, or complex egress.
- Equestrian facilities, kennels, sanctuaries, and any operation where animals require coordinated evacuation protocols.
- Anyone who has realized that their current plan is ‘get in the car and drive’ and wants something more specific than that.
What happens
Routes evaluated under fire conditions. Not just normal ones.
Step 1 — Egress-focused property walk
A CWD team member walks the property focused specifically on evacuation — evaluating primary and alternate routes, road width and surface condition, choke points and bottlenecks, timing estimates under normal and stressed conditions, turnaround options if a route becomes blocked, and loading zone locations for animals and trailers. We evaluate routes the way fire conditions demand: what happens if visibility is reduced, if there’s debris on the road, if the primary route closes as fire approaches from a specific direction.
Step 2 — Protocol development
Animal and livestock evacuation protocols are developed with you based on what’s on the property, what resources are available, and how many people are typically present. Sequencing — what gets loaded first, in what order, by whom — is defined explicitly. Emergency contacts are identified. The plan accounts for scenarios where not everyone is home when the order comes.
Step 3 — Plan and map production
The written plan and evacuation route map are produced from the walk and protocol work. The plan is written for use under pressure — direct, sequenced, and unambiguous. The map is designed to be readable at a glance. Both are formatted for printing and posting, not filing.
What you get
Two documents. Both designed for real use under pressure.
The Fire Evacuation Plan
A written document structured for use in an emergency — not read once and filed, but posted on a wall, kept in a vehicle, and reviewed before fire season. Contains: primary and alternate evacuation routes with written directions, estimated travel times, choke points and conditions to watch, loading zone locations, animal and livestock sequencing protocol with timing, and an emergency contact block. Language is direct and operational. Usable by anyone on the property, not just the owner.
The Evacuation Route Map
A property and route map showing the property boundary, loading zones, primary evacuation route, at least one alternate route, key choke points marked, and distance and time annotations. Designed for legibility under stress — high contrast, minimal clutter, clear directional markings. This map should be on a wall in the barn, in the cab of the truck, and in the hands of anyone who might need to execute an evacuation.
A note on the price.
At $999, the Fire Evacuation Plan is priced to reflect the responsibility of getting it right. An evacuation plan evaluated under real fire conditions, with animal protocols developed for your specific property, is not a generic document. It is a plan you can rely on when it matters. That is what the price reflects.
What comes next
Evacuation planning works best alongside property defense.
The Fire Evacuation Plan is a standalone service — you do not need any other CWD service to purchase it. But for customers who want to address both sides of fire preparedness — protecting the property and getting out safely — the following services connect directly:
Ready to have a plan you can actually rely on?
Call CWD to schedule your Fire Evacuation Plan. Tell us about your property, your animals, and your situation — we’ll evaluate your routes and build a plan that works under real fire conditions.
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