Who We Are

Our goal is to educate ourselves and our neighbors on how to prevent catastrophic fires, to prepare our properties to survive wildfires through home-hardening and vegetation management, and to meet insurers’ criteria for continued coverage.

We engage experts to provide pertinent information to PVFSC members at our monthly meetings. We partner with agencies such as Vacaville Fire Protection District, Solano County Office of Emergency Services (OES), Solano Resource Conservation District (RCD), and Green Valley Fire Safe Council to better inform our community. We pursue grants and funding to support wildfire mitigation projects throughout our area.

We serve the unincorporated areas of Vacaville from Interstate 80 to Highway 505 to Putah Creek Road to the Napa/Solano/Yolo County line and back to Interstate 80.

Our grassroots efforts resulted in the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) recognizing us as a Firewise Community in 2022. This recognition may help our residents maintain their homeowners’ or farm insurance.

Fire is a fact of life in California. We must learn to live with the threat of fire and make sound plans for thriving here in the countryside. Our neighborhoods are safer and friendlier when we meet our neighbors and work to improve the resiliency of our beautiful landscape. We have more agency when we band together. We have proof that lives and property were saved during past fires by neighbors and even strangers who reached out and helped selflessly.

Our Mission…

The mission of the Pleasants Valley Fire Safe Council is to promote fire resiliency within the area by providing a forum for communication, collaboration, and education.

Our Purpose

The purpose of the Pleasants Valley Fire Safe Council includes, but is not limited to:

  • FIRE-ADAPTED COMMUNITIES: Helping create and sustain fire-adapted communities.

  • EDUCATION: Supporting outreach and public education on community wildfire resilience, response, and recovery.

  • STEWARDSHIP: Promoting hazardous vegetation management and beneficial fire practices that support ecological function, climate resiliency, and address historical management issues, including maintaining the area’s agricultural and economic viability.

  • VEGETATION MANAGEMENT: Assessing fire risk and working with fire agencies on hazardous fuels reduction efforts.

  • RESPONSE: Supporting safe and effective fire response in Solano County.

  • RECOVERY: Supporting sustainable post-fire recovery for both communities and landscapes.

How We Accomplish This

  • PLANNING: Promoting community fire-safe planning and coordination, including local risk assessments.

  • ENGAGEMENT: Supporting fire-related community groups such as local Fire Safe Councils, Prescribed Burn Associations, and Firewise Communities

  • COMMUNITY: Empowering residents to be ready for wildfire.

  • GRANTS: Seeking available funding for proposed and approved wildfire resiliency projects to make Pleasants valley safer from wildfires.