(a) “Brush” means shrubs and short scrubby trees that grow close to the ground.
(b) “Combustible matter” means heavy fuels, slash, refuse piles, dead trees or tree limbs (either standing or downed), and any other highly flammable materials that may accumulate to cause a fire hazard to people or property.
(c) “Discing” means to remove weeds and flammable vegetation with an implement such as a harrow or plow that turns and loosens the soil with a series of disks.
(d) “Firebreak” means an area of property cleared of all flammable vegetation or other combustible matter that acts as a barrier to slow or stop the progress of fire.
(e) “Flammable vegetation” includes brush, Russian thistle, weeds, dry grasses of over three inches in height, or other dry or noxious plants that constitute a fire hazard and endanger people or property.
(f) “Heavy fuels” means materials of large diameter such as snag logs and large tree limbs that ignite and are consumed more slowly than flash fuels.
(g) “Refuse piles” means accumulations of flammable vegetation, rubbish and/or scrap materials, including, but not limited to, wastepaper, wood, hay, straw, weeds, litter or other flammable waste.
(h) “Russian thistle” means a large, bushy plant, commonly known as “tumbleweed.”
(i) “Slash” means debris left after logging, pruning, thinning, or brush cutting, including, but not limited to, log chunks, bark, branches, stumps, and broken understory trees or brush.
(j) “Weeds” means any of the following materials that are capable of being ignited and endangering persons or property: plants that bear seeds of a downy or wingy nature; annual grasses; sagebrush, chaparral, and any other brush that attains sufficiently large growth as to become a fire menace; and poison oak and poison ivy.
(Ord. 240, passed 12-13-2023)