Free wildfire and land services in Lassen County, California
26 programs in 9 categories, plus 6 local offices in Lassen County. Every listing names its source; ring ahead before you rely on one. Every local listing here was checked on or after 31 August 2026.
The two big numbers on Lassen's page are Dixie Fire money: ReCoverCA retrofit grants of up to fifty thousand dollars to bring a home up to wildland urban interface code, and reconstruction grants of up to half a million for survivors with unmet needs, both tied to the federal disaster area that also reaches into Plumas. Around them sit the everyday contacts, the Honey Lake Valley conservation district, the federal desk in Susanville, the county planning office and the CAL FIRE unit shared with Modoc and Plumas.
Written from the listings on this page and reviewed by Larry Trimboli on 9 September 2026.
They get a short summary of what Lassen County has and a link back here. The address or number reaches our contact records, and a text says how to stop. Only send to someone who would want it.
Why Sierra Log & Timber cares about your vacant land
Sierra Log & Timber mills cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California. A good part of our working week is spent with people who have just bought land, and the same thing happens every time: the grants, the chipping days, the defensible space visits and the permit desks are all real, and all scattered across a dozen county websites that do not link to one another. So we put them in one place and left it open. You do not have to be building a log home to use this, and reading it signs you up for nothing.
The office behind these listings is in Susanville. 6 organisations and 3 programmes are recorded locally here. The local work runs to defensible space, home hardening and cost share. When somebody asks us to price a package for a parcel in Lassen County, these are the desks we point them at first. Access, clearing and defensible space all come before anything we mill, and they are cheaper before there is a building in the way.
Building on rural land in Lassen County
What applies in this county rather than across California, each line with the source it was read from.
Where the building permit comes from
Lassen County Planning & Building Services issues building permits here.
The rules that apply across California, the building code the state has adopted, its wildfire construction standard, who issues a permit and whether you may build a house yourself, are on the California page, each with the source it was read from.
Common questions
Does Sierra Log & Timber run any of these programmes?+
No. Every organisation and programme on this page is run by somebody else: a county office, a state agency, a nonprofit, a utility or a tribe. We collect them, check them and publish them, and that is the whole of our part in it. What we do ourselves is mill cedar log and timber home packages in Chico, California.
Is this free to use, and does using it sign me up for anything?+
The directory is free and reading it signs you up for nothing. The two panels below are the only places on this page that ask for an address, both are optional, and they do different jobs: one tells you when this county's listings change, the other tells us that something here is already wrong.
How current are the Lassen County listings?+
Every organisation here was checked against its own website or an official directory before it was published, and nothing goes on the page without a working way to reach it. That does not stop numbers changing, offices moving or a programme running out of money. When one of those happens, the second panel below is how it gets fixed.
They get a short summary of what Lassen County has and a link back here. The address or number reaches our contact records, and a text says how to stop. Only send to someone who would want it.
Free to qualifying landowners, from Lassen Fire Safe Council
The council assesses properties for wildfire risk at no cost anywhere in Lassen County, teaches homeowners what to do about what it finds, and carries out the treatment itself on eligible properties belonging to vulnerable residents. The assessment and the treatment are separate: anybody may have the assessment, the treatment is means and circumstance tested.
The form leaves you room to describe any concerns or challenges on your land, so it is worth jotting those down before you start. Questions can go to the council's wildfire resiliency coordinator on 530-250-5627, or to the office at 1825 Main St in Susanville on (530) 250-4449.
Who qualifies Every property in Lassen County is eligible for the free assessment. Treatment is for vulnerable residents, and the sign up form asks the applicant to say whether they are a senior aged 60 or older, low income, disabled or a veteran. The council warns that it works area by area and that a wait should be expected.
How to apply Complete the sign up form on the council's defensible space page, giving a physical address rather than a PO box, or contact Tonya Smith, the Wildfire Resiliency Coordinator, by email or telephone.
Policies effective November 15, 2025 or later can earn up to 12 separate discounts on the wildfire portion of the premium. Details: what to know, how to apply
A reimbursement programme covering 75 to 90 percent of costs for non industrial private forest landowners; the 90 percent rate applies when the applicant owns less… Details: who qualifies, how to apply
Technical help for private forest landowners and the Forest Stewardship programme, delivered in California through the CAL FIRE partnership. Details: what to know
FreeNationwidefrom USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
Federal help to stabilise a watershed after a disaster, which after a fire means the burn scars, the slipping slopes and the choked channels the fire… Details: what to know, who qualifies
FreeStatewidefrom California State Board of Equalization
Revenue and Taxation Code section 170 calamity relief: after a loss over 10,000 dollars in a county declared calamity, the assessor reappraises to the damaged value… Details: what to know, how to apply
Numbers change and programmes run out of money. Leave an address and it is held against the Lassen County page so you can be told when a listing here is added, changed or removed. No account.
What is stored is your address and which county page you left it on, and nothing else: no name, no location, nothing about what you read. It is used for that one notification and for nothing else, it appears nowhere on this site, and this site cannot read the list back. Nothing has been sent to any address yet, because the notices are not built; when they are, every message will say how to stop them.
Something on this page is wrong?
Numbers change, offices move and programmes run out of money. If something on this page is wrong, tell us and a person will check it.
FreeStatewidefrom California Department of Insurance
Under Insurance Code section 2644.9, effective October 14, 2022, all admitted property insurers that use wildfire risk in pricing must offer premium discounts for 12 specific… Details: what to know, how to apply
Financial and technical cost share for conservation practices on cropland, rangeland and private non industrial forestland. Details: who qualifies, how to apply
FreeNationwidefrom Federal Emergency Management Agency
Individual Assistance, disaster case management and Hazard Mitigation Assistance after a federal disaster declaration; preparedness guides at ready.gov. Details: what to know, who qualifies, how to apply
FreeStatewidefrom California Public Utilities Commission
Self Generation Incentive Program battery incentives: the Equity budget at 850 dollars per kWh and the Equity Resiliency budget at 1,000 dollars per kWh, which can… Details: what to know, who qualifies, how to apply
Home repair loans to around 40,000 dollars, and grants to around 10,000 dollars for owners 62 and over, to remove health and safety hazards in eligible… Details: what to know
Free technical advice on forest health, tree mortality and CFIP applications from regional CAL FIRE Forestry Assistance Specialists. Details: what to know, how to apply
Nationwide
from United Policyholders
Free guidance on insurance claims, contractors, rebuilding and avoiding scams: the little yellow book, the Ask an Expert forum, and in person and Zoom clinics in… Details: what to know
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