◈ Homepage — https://buttefiresafe.net/Skip to main content ABOUT COLLABORATION PROGRAMS NEWS & NOTES GET INVOLVED RESOURCES FAQ'S Search CONTACT US DONATE BUTTE COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL BuildingWildfireResilienceThroughPrevention,RestorationandRecovery Because the safety of our communities and the health of our landscapes are inseparable. LEARN MORE SUPPORT OUR WORK SCROLL Forest Health Chipper Grazing Defensible Space Youth Education Firewise USA Forest Health Chipper Grazing Defensible Space Youth Education Firewise USA ABOUT The Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) is a 501(C)3 grassroots nonprofit situated in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Northern California. We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. ABOUT THE COUNCIL 0 ACRES TREATED 0 CHIPPER SITES COMPLETED 0 HAZARD TREES MITIGATED *Data as of April 2026 OUR IMPACT Featured Work VIEW ALL NOVEMBER 17, 2025 Good Fire at Work: The Bidwell Bridge Broadcast Burn Project BCFSC facilitated a 175-acre broadcast burn in the Oroville Foothills to reduce hazardous overgrowth, protect native plant communities, and increase landscape resilience. JULY 26, 2025 Strategic Resilience in Action: The Center Fire A vegetation fire near Centerville Road was held to just 3 acres thanks to swift response and strategic fuel treatments completed by BCFSC and partners. NEWS & NOTES READ BLOG APRIL 2, 2026 Living and Rebuilding in the WUI: Rethinking Fire Resilience as a Community At Chico State's This Way to Resilience Symposium, panelists explored what it means to live well in a fire-dependent ecosystem — and what it takes to get there together. APRIL 2, 2026 Project Notice: Robinson Mill Roadside Project BCFSC will implement the Robinson Mill Roadside Fuels Reduction Project along Robinson Mill, Upham, and La Porte roads to create a shaded fuel break and improve wildfire safety for residents. DECEMBER 23, 2025 Project Notice: Forest Ranch - Platt Mountain Community Project BCFSC, in collaboration with CAL FIRE and California Climate Investments, will carry out fuels reduction through mastication, hand cutting, lop and scattering, and hand piling in Forest Ranch. COMMUNITY IMPACT Voices from the Community “ I personally witnessed how the fire, which initially raced up Mud Creek Canyon as a crown fire, transformed when it encountered areas where the forest had been thinned. In these treated areas, the flames dropped to the ground, making them far more manageable for CAL FIRE. Their hard work, combined with the Fire Safe Council's commitment to reducing the fuel load throughout Cohasset, played a crucial role in saving large portions of our community. Ron Ward— Cohasset MAKE A DIFFERENCE Give Today and Help us Protect What we All Share Every dollar goes toward fuel reduction, education, and building fire-resilient communities. MAKE AN IMPACT STAY CONNECTED Sign up for our Newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER You'll be redirected to our signup form. Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. RESOURCES FAQs News & Updates Get Involved ORGANIZATION About Us Board and Team Community Engagement GET IN TOUCH PHYSICAL ADDRESS 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 MAILING ADDRESS PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 MAILING ADDRESS FOR CHECK PAYMENTS Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us ◈ Interior Pages — 10 pages crawledProject Notice: Forest Ranch - Platt Mountain Community Project - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Back to News press release Project Notice: Forest Ranch - Platt Mountain Community Project BCFSC, in collaboration with CAL FIRE and California Climate Investments, will carry out fuels reduction through mastication, hand cutting, lop and scattering, and hand piling in Forest Ranch. Published December 23, 2025 Written By Butte County Fire Safe Council To mitigate the risk of wildfire, protect water resources, and improve overall forest health in Forest Ranch, the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC), in collaboration with CAL FIRE and California Climate Investments (CCI), will carry out fuels reduction through mastication, hand cutting, lop and scattering, and hand piling. These efforts aim to decrease dense vegetation, restore forest health, and improve watershed resilience, ultimately supporting the long-term goal of reintroducing beneficial fire in the form of pile burns. The project is strategically located along Platt Mountain Road and across Deer Creek Highway, spanning 110 acres of treatment. The location is part of a larger effort to connect previously completed and upcoming projects to improve overall community safety and reliability of evacuation routes. Understory vegetation will be reduced through mechanical mastication and hand cutting to establish a community fuel break. Additionally, hand-cut and pile units will be strategically placed across the slopes of Butte Creek Canyon to ensure the fuel load is effectively reduced through planned prescribed fire. Work began in mid-December and will continue until the project is completed in 2026. The Butte County Fire Safe Council is a grassroots non-profit organization that implements a variety of fuels reduction and forest health projects in operation around Butte County including Forbestown, Berry Creek, Forest Ranch, Cohasset, Paradise, Big Chico Creek Canyon, and Oroville Foothills. More information can be found on BCFSC's website at buttefiresafe.net , on Facebook, or by calling our office at (530) 877-0984. Download the full press release (PDF) Funding for Butte County Forest Resilience and Restoration Project was provided by CAL FIRE's Forest Health Program, as part of California Climate Investments. For more information, visit caclimateinvestments.ca.gov . Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. 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By working together, we can increase the pace and scale of stewardship and advance fuels reduction and forest health projects across the landscape. Latest Featured Living and Rebuilding in the WUI: Rethinking Fire Resilience as a Community At Chico State's This Way to Resilience Symposium, panelists explored what it means to live well in a fire-dependent ecosystem — and what it takes to get there together. Good Fire at Work: The Bidwell Bridge Broadcast Burn Project BCFSC facilitated a 175-acre broadcast burn in the Oroville Foothills to reduce hazardous overgrowth, protect native plant communities, and increase landscape resilience. Post-Fire Recovery and Renewal at Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve The Butte County Collaborative Group toured the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve to learn about post-fire erosion control, sediment capture, and remediation efforts following the 2024 Park Fire. Progress and Partnerships on the Ridge A tour of four sites in the Town of Paradise highlights recovery milestones and collaborative strategies for wildfire safety and forest health nearly seven years after the Camp Fire. View All Posts Butte County Collaborative Group Projects The Butte County Collaborative Group The Butte County Collaborative Group Provides Transparent Access to Forest Health & Fuel Reduction Projects The mission of the BCCG is to form strategic partnerships for effective collaboration among partners engaged in forest health, ecological restoration, and wildfire safety. Visit the Butte County Collaborative Group Hub Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us Living and Rebuilding in the WUI: Rethinking Fire Resilience as a Community - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Back to News collaboration Living and Rebuilding in the WUI: Rethinking Fire Resilience as a Community At Chico State's This Way to Resilience Symposium, panelists explored what it means to live well in a fire-dependent ecosystem — and what it takes to get there together. Published April 2, 2026 Written By Kiara Heacock and Jade Elhardt Last Friday, community members, students, practitioners, and land stewards gathered at Chico State's This Way to Resilience Symposium, a day rooted in a shared question: how do we build stronger, more adaptive communities across Northern California's fire-adapted landscapes? Among the day's conversations, a panel on Living and Rebuilding in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) brought together voices from fire science, land use planning, and community-based resilience work. Panelists Taylor Nilsson and Calli-Jane West of the Butte County Fire Safe Council, Zeke Lunder of The Lookout, and Rebekah Casey of the North State Planning and Development Collective led a wide-ranging discussion about what it means to live well in a fire-dependent ecosystem — and what it takes to get there together. A Changing Landscape Demands a Changing Relationship Fire severity across our watersheds is intensifying. Stand-replacing fire behavior is moving through landscapes that historically supported frequent, low-intensity fire regimes, and the ecological consequences are compounding. The land we see today bears little resemblance to what it looked like even a few decades ago, let alone under the stewardship practices that shaped these ecosystems over millennia. Our baselines have shifted. Reimagining what a healthy, functioning landscape looks like in this region means grappling with altered fire return intervals, degraded soil water-holding capacity, and declining biodiversity. It also means recognizing that the ecological knowledge to guide that reimagining already exists in this place — held by Indigenous communities who have been doing this work long before "resilience" became a common buzzword. For Rebekah Casey, that shifting relationship is personal. She grew up on the north shore of Lake Concow among sugar pines, incense cedars, and acorn woodpeckers — where wildfire was a fact of life from childhood, ash drifting into the yard from distant smoke columns. After the Ralston Fire, her high school class went out together and replanted trees. In 2008, when the lightning complex fires gutted Concow, she pivoted from witness to responder — helping fundraise with elders for basic resources, eventually helping form a community project to support rebuilding. After the Camp Fire, she shifted again to long-term recovery, a role that has followed her through every major fire since. Her arc — from kid watching ash fall to community recovery organizer — mirrors the arc many in this region have traveled. Fire Belongs Here. A key message from the panel was that we need fire on the landscape . Ecologically, that's not controversial. Many of the plant communities, meadow systems, and wildlife habitats across the northern Sierra and Cascade foothills are fire-dependent — they evolved with fire and decline without it. But bringing fire back requires a social foundation. The panelists emphasized that fuels management and prescribed fire work focused around communities is essential to building the trust people need to feel safe when fire is burning in the backcountry. That trust doesn't happen in the abstract — it's built through visible, hands-on work at the community interface, and through cross-boundary collaboration between agencies, organizations, tribes, and neighbors. Zeke Lunder, pyrogeographer and founder of The Lookout, noted that a meaningful national-scale shift has occurred over the past two to three decades: environmental groups, once wary of land management agencies using fire as cover for backcountry logging, have increasingly aligned around the principle that fuels work should focus on communities first. "We still need fires to burn on the landscape," he said, "but focusing fuels management around communities is how we eventually build trust where people feel safer when fire burns in the backcountry." He was candid about the difficulty of using prescribed fire as a management tool in California today, and cautioned against the confirmation bias that can emerge when a fire stops at a fuel break — the temptation to treat any success story as proof that treatments work under all conditions. Resilience Is a Collective Condition One of the panel's most compelling framings recast fire resilience as a public health issue: you are only as resilient as your most vulnerable neighbor. That single idea reframes the work entirely. Resilience isn't built parcel by parcel — it's built across whole neighborhoods and watersheds. It lives in the social connections between people, in shared infrastructure like water systems, evacuation corridors, and communication networks, and in a community's collective capacity to prepare, respond, and steward land together. The panelists were direct about the gaps. Do residents have the financial and physical capacity to care for their land? Do people understand the real limitations of suppression resources, or are they operating under the misconception that there will always be time to evacuate and firefighters to protect every structure? Rebekah was pointed: "When you get the call, it's time to go. Plan for not having any time at all." Zeke added that one of the most persistent misconceptions is simply that firefighters will be there to save your house. Calli-Jane noted that embers — not direct flame contact — remain widely misunderstood as the primary mechanism of home ignition, even as awareness has grown. This extends to how we think about absentee landownership, a challenge Calli-Jane flagged as especially acute in foothill communities. Large parcels with absent owners, checkerboarded across the landscape, cannot be treated and create dangerous gaps in any neighborhood-scale resilience strategy. Her argument: it is better to have people living on land and maintaining it than to leave it unmanaged. This extends to how we think about rebuilding. For communities in post-fire recovery, the pressure to rebuild fast is immense. Critical questions to consider include asking what is the base design of the community? How is critical infrastructure prioritized relative to fire behavior? Are we building back for the fire regimes we actually live in, or the ones we wish we still had? Zeke pointed to Paradise as a case study in missed opportunity: "When we spend two billion dollars to rebuild Paradise, we could have spent another billion and completely reconsidered the entire infrastructure — with a whole new, better plan." Answering those questions well requires cross-sector collaboration — planners, ecologists, fire practitioners, tribal land managers, and community members designing together for the landscape as it is and as it's becoming. Do rural communities have the capacity to engage in long-term planning in the wake of a disaster, or does immediate recovery understandably take precedence? What Resilience Actually Looks Like on the Ground The panel offered concrete examples of where this work has made a measurable difference — and where it hasn't gone far enough. Calli-Jane walked through the Park Fire's impact on Cohasset, where Maple Creek Ranch became a striking case study in layered prevention. A combination of prescribed burns conducted with the local prescribed burn association, defensible space work, and on-site water source preparedness FAQ's - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Help Center Frequently Asked Questions Find answers to common questions about our programs, fire safety, and how we can help protect your property. What programs does BCFSC offer, and how do I know if I qualify? When will work happen on my property? How can I find out if I'm in a Firewise Community? What are the defensible space requirements for my area? How do I report a neighboring property that's out of compliance? Does BCFSC inspect properties? Can I get help with vegetation management on my property? Can the BCFSC help me remove invasive plants on my property? Where can I find disaster recovery resources? Is today a burn day? Do I need a burn permit? I see smoke! Who do I call? Is the BCFSC a government entity? Why are green trees being removed from the forest? Still have questions? Can't find what you're looking for? Our team is here to help. Contact Us Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us Strategic Resilience in Action: The Center Fire - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Back to News success story Strategic Resilience in Action: The Center Fire A vegetation fire near Centerville Road was held to just 3 acres thanks to swift response and strategic fuel treatments completed by BCFSC and partners. Published July 26, 2025 Written By Butte County Fire Safe Council On July 26th at approximately 5:25 PM, a vegetation fire was reported near the upper end of Centerville Road. Initially estimated at just 1/4 to 1/2 acre with a moderate rate of spread, the fire could have escalated quickly. Thanks to the swift response from CAL FIRE, who deployed both retardant aircraft and ground crews, the fire was successfully held to 3 acres. Evacuations were issued for parts of the surrounding area, ensuring the safety of residents. What made this fire particularly significant was its proximity to two Butte County Fire Safe Council forest health projects. To the east, a recently completed mastication project, funded by The Sierra Nevada Conservancy as part of the Magalia Forest and Wildfire Resiliency Project, bordered a 2021 biomass removal project completed under the My Sierra Woods program, funded by the American Forest Foundation. These carefully planned treatments helped slow the fire's spread, support firefighter response, and reduce ecological impacts. This event underscores the critical importance of proactive, strategic fuels management, as well as the need for ongoing maintenance and retreatment in high-risk areas. We are deeply grateful to our partners and funders for their continued investment in wildfire resilience across Butte County. The fire was fully contained the following day, demonstrating how preparation and strategic planning can make a real difference in protecting our communities and forests. Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us Good Fire at Work: The Bidwell Bridge Broadcast Burn Project - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Back to News projects Good Fire at Work: The Bidwell Bridge Broadcast Burn Project BCFSC facilitated a 175-acre broadcast burn in the Oroville Foothills to reduce hazardous overgrowth, protect native plant communities, and increase landscape resilience. Published November 17, 2025 Written By Butte County Fire Safe Council This past month, we had the opportunity to facilitate a broadcast burn in the Oroville Foothills near Highway 162 and Forbestown Road. This carefully planned burn was designed to reduce hazardous overgrowth, protect native plant communities, and increase the overall resilience of the landscape against catastrophic wildfires. The project area sits less than three miles from the scars of the 2020 North Complex Fire and the 2017 Wall Fire, events that burned hundreds of homes, caused tragic loss of life, and left lasting environmental damage in Berry Creek, Feather Falls, East Oroville Foothills, and the Loafer Creek Recreation Area. Prescribed fire is a proven tool for creating safer landscapes and restoring ecological balance, helping both communities and ecosystems thrive. The burn encompassed 175 acres of overgrown blue oak and gray pine forest. With favorable weather conditions for smoke management, a dedicated fire crew oversaw the project, carefully monitoring fire behavior to ensure safety and effectiveness. This project was managed by the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) and carried out by the Terra Fuego Resource Foundation, made possible through funding from CAL FIRE's WUI Wide Forest Health Program, as part of the California Climate Investments Program. What Comes Next Looking ahead, the next phase will focus on restoring native grasses and forbs. Working with a local botanist, this reseeding effort will improve soil health, increase pollinator habitat, and provide forage for wildlife, continuing the cycle of ecosystem renewal sparked by the burn. Through these efforts, we aim to steward the land thoughtfully, balancing fire management with ecological restoration, and creating a landscape that is safer, healthier, and more resilient for future generations. Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us Project Notice: Robinson Mill Roadside Project - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Back to News press release Project Notice: Robinson Mill Roadside Project BCFSC will implement the Robinson Mill Roadside Fuels Reduction Project along Robinson Mill, Upham, and La Porte roads to create a shaded fuel break and improve wildfire safety for residents. Published April 2, 2026 Written By Butte County Fire Safe Council To improve public safety and reduce hazardous fuels, the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) will implement the Robinson Mill Roadside Fuels Reduction Project along Robinson Mill, Upham, and La Porte roads. The project will create a shaded fuel break along this evacuation route to increase wildfire safety for residents and improve access for wildfire emergency personnel, while also enhancing watershed protection and promoting overall forest health. Treatment will focus on thinning the understory through hand cutting and chipping, with some material hauled to an approved disposal facility as needed. The remaining vegetation will be pruned to reduce ladder fuels that allow fire to climb into the forest canopy. Work will be conducted in an environmentally sensitive manner to decrease flammability, accelerate natural decomposition, and improve the health and resilience of the remaining tree stand. Project work will occur across approximately 60 acres along roughly 6 miles of roadway on both public right-of-way and adjacent private lands, under the oversight of BCFSC. Work is scheduled to begin in early spring and will continue until the project is completed. The Butte County Fire Safe Council is a grassroots non-profit organization that implements a variety of fuels reduction and forest health projects in operation around Butte County including Forbestown, Berry Creek, Forest Ranch, Cohasset, Paradise, Big Chico Creek Canyon, and Oroville Foothills. More information can be found on Facebook, or by calling our office at (530) 877-0984. Download the full press release (PDF) This project is funded entirely by federal financial assistance through a U.S. Forest Service Fuels Reduction Grant and administered in partnership with the Butte County Public Works (BCPW) and the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC). This institution is an equal opportunity provider. Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us About Us - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search About Us The Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) is a grass-roots nonprofit founded in 1998, dedicated to building strong relationships to protect lives, preserve our forests, and promote a mindset of shared responsibility. Increasingly intense wildfires are a lived reality for Californians, requiring sustained, boots-on-the-ground action. Our work is driven by implementation—reducing hazardous fuels, restoring forest health at a landscape scale, supporting defensible space, and advancing community education. This work is long-term and future-focused, grounded in the ongoing care of the ridges, canyons, forests, streams, meadows, and communities across Butte County—from Clipper Mills to Cohasset. Mission, Vision & Values Mission To provide safety in Butte County through wildfire hazard education, mitigation, and recovery. Vision To create communities within a landscape that are resistant and resilient to the devastating impacts of wildland fires. Values We value integrity, respect, safety, fun, positive experiences and effectiveness as we collaborate with partners, volunteers and staff to make a fire-safe community. Our Team Meet the dedicated staff and board members who drive our mission forward. View Team Annual Reports View our yearly impact and financial summaries. Explore Annuals Careers Explore opportunities to make a meaningful impact in Butte County. View Openings Get Involved with BCFSC Join us in protecting our forests and communities. Get Involved Contact Us Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us Contact Us - Butte County Fire Safe Council Skip to main content Toggle menu About Collaboration Programs News & Notes Get Involved Resources FAQ's Search Contact Us Donate Search Get In Touch Contact Us Have questions about fire safety, our projects, or how to get involved? We're here to help. Contact Information Our Office 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address: PO Box 699, Paradise, CA 95967 Phone (530) 877-0984 Email [email protected] Send a Message We'll get back to you as soon as possible. Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) We help protect lives, preserve the forests we love, and foster the shared responsibility it takes to thrive in a fire-adapted landscape. Through community education and landscape-scale forest health projects, we build resilience from the ground up. Resources FAQs News & Updates Get Involved Organization About Us Board and Team Community Engagement Get in Touch Physical Address 6569 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Mailing Address PO Box 699 Paradise, CA 95967 Mailing Address for Check Payments Butte County Fire Safe Council P.O. Box 80890 City of Industry, CA 91716-8420 530-877-0984 [email protected] © 2026 Butte County Fire Safe Council. All rights reserved. Contact Support Us