Creating defensible space around your home is an important and essential step to improve your home’s chance of surviving wildfire. The Fire District will support your defensible space work by offering disposal options of most defensible space vegetation.

Watch the video to learn how to prepare your piles for pick-up!

Read more information below,
and have your pile ready for pickup BEFORE
making a pickup request.

May through October, Truckee Fire offers free Curbside Green Waste Pick-Up. Simply create a pile of woody biomass within the material and location requirements, and a crew will drive up in a large dump truck with a grapple to pick up and haul away the vegetation!

How to Prepare Your Pile:
- Stack material neatly at the curb with cut ends facing the street
- Keep stacks under 6 feet high
- Maintain 3 feet of clearance from hydrants, snow poles, utility boxes, trees, etc.
- Ensure 15 feet of overhead clearance from power and communication lines

Eligible Material:
- Woody vegetation only: shrubs, tree limbs, or trunks up to 8” in diameter, either green or recently dead
- Material must be 6 feet long or shorter
- Both green and recently dead material accepted

Not Accepted:
- Pine needles, cones, bark
- Roots, stumps or root wads
- Scrap lumber or construction debris
- Commercial projects, timber harvest projects
- Tractor piles
- Garbage, mental, rocks, firewood rounds
- Tractor piles, commercial or timber harvest material

This service is for vegetation removed within 100 feet of a home or structure. Vacant lots are eligible only if they fall within that 100-foot zone, regardless of property lines.