Plumas County Municipal Code Art. 2 Definitions

For the purposes of this chapter, unless otherwise apparent from the context, certain words and phrases used in this chapter are defined in this article.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Fire hazard severity zones (FHSZS)" means areas designated as moderate, high, and very high by the state fire marshal pursuant to government code sec. 51178 in the local responsibility area (LRA) that are not in the state responsibility area (SRA).

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Fuel" means any combustible material, including petroleum-based products, cultivated landscape plants, grasses, and weeds, and wildland vegetation.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Hazard" is based on the physical conditions that create a likelihood and expected fire behavior over a thirty (30) to fifty (50) year period without considering mitigation measures such as home hardening, recent wildfire, or fuel reduction efforts.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Local agency" means a fire protection special district responsible for wildfire protection within the local responsibility area (LRA).

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Local responsibility area (LRA)" means an area which a local agency is responsible for wildfire protection.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Risk" is the potential damage a fire can do to the area under existing conditions, accounting for any modifications such as fuel reduction projects, defensible space, and ignition resistant building construction.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Vegetation" is fuel for a wildfire and means all plants, including trees, shrubs, grass, and perennial or annual plants.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)

"Wildfire" means an unplanned, unwanted wildland fire, including unauthorized human-caused fires, escaped wildland fire use events, escaped prescribed fire projects, and all other wildland fires where the objective is to extinguish the fire.

(Ord. No. 2025-1159, § 1(Exh. A), 6-10-2025)