Full Assessment
The definitive record of your property’s wildfire risk, and the plan to act on it.
Your property assessed in a defined regional structure, measured rather than estimated, with findings cited to your parcel’s rules, to fire science, and to recognized preparedness standards, then prioritized into work you can act on for years.
Built for When the Work Is Real
At some point the question changes from “what should I be thinking about?” to “what exactly do we do, in what order, and under which rules?” Removing trees. Converting the first five feet. Replacing a deck, a fence, a roof. Decisions like these deserve more than a checklist and a conversation. They deserve a plan durable enough to guide work across seasons, contractors, and rule changes.
That is what the Full Assessment produces.
A Structure That Makes the Property Legible
Before anything is captured, your parcel is divided into assessment regions: a working structure for the assessment itself, separate from your defensible space zones. Every finding, photograph, and measurement is tied to its region. The result is a large property made legible: findings are easy to locate in the report, easy to relocate on the ground, and organized in a uniform structure that estimates can be built against, region by region, scope by scope.
Prepared Before, Present During, Thorough After
Before the visit, your Advisor confirms your Fire Hazard Severity Zone, identifies your fire authority and pulls its rules, gathers the local community rules that apply, HOA covenants, design boards, and similar layers, reviews your parcel’s public records, and studies your land by satellite with a planned route.
The visit runs four to six hours, and it is not only capture. It is time. Time to measure what a walk can only estimate: clearances, spacing adjusted for your slope, access dimensions, a vent-by-vent inventory, closer ladder-level review of the roofline. And time to talk: your property’s history, how the new rules are landing on you, and what you want this place to be in five years. The best plans are built from both.
Then the development work begins. After capture, your Advisor researches the details your property raised, aligns findings with the requirements and standards that govern them, and builds the report. The document you receive was not typed up in a truck. It was built.
The Plan You Keep
A documented assessment of 50+ pages, written for two readers at once: clear enough for you, specific enough that a contractor can begin estimating from it.
Prioritized
Findings become scopes of work in order of consequence, so budgets go where they matter first.
Cited
Every finding is tied to what stands behind it: your local fire authority’s requirements first, state standards beneath them, the fire science that explains why it matters, and recognized preparedness standards where they add a useful benchmark. Community-level guidance is in the plan where it applies, which is often the deciding input when it is time to remove vegetation or alter your home’s exterior. Citation is also what keeps the plan alive: when a rule changes, and rules will change, the findings tied to it are easy to find and easy to update, without redoing the work.
Documented, Not Judged
We record what exists on your property and cite the requirement that governs it. Where a condition cannot be seen without opening something up, the report says so. You get an honest evidentiary record, not a pass-fail verdict built on assumptions.
Durable
Your home’s building code position is part of the record: which code era your home belongs to and what future work would trigger. A reroof or remodel two years from now starts from this document instead of from scratch.
From Plan to Work, Without Starting Over
The report is built to extend. When you are ready to act, it moves directly into estimation and scheduling with our contractor partners: the regions, findings, and scopes they price are the same ones you have been reading, and one team stays accountable from assessment through completed work. If you prefer your own contractor or your own hands, the plan serves them just as well.
Rules change. Your Advisor stays.A Full Assessment starts a relationship.
Zone requirements are tightening, code editions turn over, and enforcement arrives in stages. Your documented baseline makes every future conversation shorter: with us, with your contractor, and in the discussions where documentation matters.
Three Ways to Know Your Property
| Risk Walk | Risk Walk + Report | Full Assessment | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Explained with you, on your ground | ● | ● | ● |
| Documented with photos | ● | ● | |
| Measured, cited, prioritized | ● | ||
| Time on your property | 60–90 min | 60–90 min | 4–6 hours |
| What you keep | Understanding + take-home materials | 10–20 page report | 50+ page documented plan |
Who Commissions a Full Assessment
- Owners of High and Very High hazard parcels where the stakes justify depth.
- Homeowners with real work ahead: vegetation removal, Zone 0 conversion, exterior updates.
- Larger properties with outbuildings, slopes, and edges that a walk can only gesture at.
- Anyone who wants one authoritative document their household, their contractor, and their future decisions can all work from.
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