Fire History
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CAL FIRE Amador-El Dorado Unit
El Dorado Resource Conservation District & El Dorado Irrigation District January 13, 2026
South Placerville Fuel Break
King (2014)
97,685 acres
Butte (2015)
70,847 acres
Caldor (2021)
221,786 acres
Mosquito (2022)
76,771 acres
Unit Fire Plan
Amador-El Dorado Unit
Strategic Fire Plan 2025
Wildfire Resiliency Program
BC Jeff Hoag | FC Arend Tosti | FC Greg
Schwegler | RDS1 Laura Spellman
May 5, 2025
AEU Strategic Fire Plan 2025
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A common operating picture for collaborative wildfire risk mitigation
1 Not all treated acres have the same value.
2 Identify the highest impact areas to
reduce risk and protect communities.
3 Design and implement scalable actionable
projects that align with unit strategy.
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Experience and expertise
Vibrant Planet (decision support tool)
Model Runs
Project Alignment
Feasibility
Partnerships/Collaboration
Current Fuel Reduction Projects
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South Placerville Fuel Break
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5,500 acres
Large landscape level project
Other cooperators in the area doing projects to create a continuous fuel break.
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El Dorado County was awarded a $25 million FEMA Hazard
Mitigation grant through the California Wildfire Mitigation Program (CWMP), with matching funds provided by Senate Bill 85 (Ch.31, Stats.2020) and the County of El Dorado. The goal of the Weber Creek project is to help homeowners by creating defensible space and retrofitting homes with fire-resistant building materials.
This three-year project is one of six pilot program grants in California aimed to reduce the impacts of wildfire through implementing a series of mitigation measures. This project focuses on an area identified as high wildfire risk along the Weber Creek drainage, south of Placerville encompassing 525 homes.
Project Map
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The project entails maintenance actions on an estimated 228 acre modified shaded fuel break on private lands. The area encompasses approximately 900 acres.
Environmental review was completed and fuel reduction work started under a previous grant from the Sierra Nevada
Conservancy.
CAL FIRE recently awarded a Wildfire Prevention Grant to the El Dorado Fire Safe Council to complete fuel reduction work.
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1,500 acres of EID property
Fuel reduction
Firefighter training opportunities
Cooperation
What is the RCD's role?
Partnering with CAL FIRE on:
Public Outreach
Environmental review
Implementation assistance
Website
Process
Planning and design
Community Coordination
Environmental Review: Complying
with the California Environmental
Quality Act
CEQA requires state and local
government agencies in California
to identify the impacts their actions
will have on the environment, and
to avoid or mitigate those impacts.
Treatment Implementation
Monitoring and maintenance
Goals
Community participation
Protect life and property
Protect communities and critical infrastructure
Improve firefighter access and safety
Continuous fuel break
Tactical geographic area
CEQA
Success Stories
Tiger Fire August 8, 2025
Timeline
Stage 1
Project Boundary (Complete)
Stage 2
Landowner Participation: RM 75
Stage 3
Environmental Review
Stage 4
Implementation
RM 75
Questions
https://bit.ly/3Zm3u3R
Credits
Photos CAL FIRE FLICKR
AGOL Maps CAL FIRE - Laura Spellman
Cooperators RCD & EID