RSF Fire District: Sheltering in Place During Wildfires

Download a copy of our
Sheltering in Place During Wildfires brochure (pdf)

Frequently Asked Questions (pdf)

Download our fire-safe landscape checklist (pdf)

More Wildfire & Evacuation Preparedness Tips

If you are not a resident of one these shelter-in-place communities, please schedule our "Ready for Wildfire?" program.

Sheltering-in-Place During Wildfires

Do you own a Shelter-in-Place home?

If you live in The Bridges, The Crosby, CIELO, 4S Ranch or Santa Fe Valley, your home is considered SHELTER-IN-PLACE.

Shelter-in-place (SIP) means you can safely shelter in your home during a wildfire if you cannot safely evacuate on dangerous roads.

Contents of our SIP program include:

What is shelter-in-place?
- Defining the term
- Our local shelter in place communities
Designing a shelter-in-place Communies
- Fire-resistive homes
- Fire-resistive landscaping
- Specific home features
- Specific community features
Why not Evacuate?
- Dangers of evacuation
When Wildfire Approaches
- Preparing your home
- Preparing your family
- Emergency actions
Maintaining your shelter-in-place community
- Maintaining your fire-resistive home
- Maintaining your fire-resistive landscape
- Community maintenance

Although the SIP concept is new to the United States, Australia has used the concept for years. Recently, our SIP communities passed the test of the Witch Creek Fire. Although the fire burned in and around these communities, not a single SIP shetler was lost. To learn more about sheltering in place, or to schedule this presentation, please contact Julie Taber at (858) 756-6008, or via email.