Brush clearing service areas in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties

Sonora

Home base, where Highways 49 and 108 meet

Sonora is the county seat and the only incorporated city in Tuolumne County, and inside city limits the Sonora Fire Department inspects defensible space every year under the city's own Chapter 8.12. We do defensible space clearing to that code, which covers empty lots too.

East Sonora

Mono Way, the east side of Sonora

Also Crystal Falls and Mono Vista

East Sonora, Crystal Falls, Mono Vista and Phoenix Lake sit outside city limits, where Tuolumne County's Chapter 8.14 asks for 15 feet of clearance over driveways and a reduced fuel strip 10 feet out from the road edge. We do that brush clearing along Mono Way, Phoenix Lake Road and the private drives off them.

Jamestown

Highways 49 and 108, south of Sonora

Jamestown is open grass hills, oaks and rural acreage, and in July 2026 the Dove Fire ran toward its neighborhoods from Highway 108 and Mill Villa Road. We cut fire breaks and do lot and land clearing on fields and acreage before the grass dries out.

Columbia

Off Highway 49, north of Sonora

Columbia is oak woodland three miles north of Sonora, mapped Very High fire hazard at the center of town. Our brush clearing there is hand work with chainsaws and brush cutters, taking the brush and dead limbs out from under the oaks.

Soulsbyville

East of Sonora, toward Tuolumne

Soulsbyville, an old Gold Rush mining town east of Sonora, is mapped High fire hazard at the town center. Brush under a pine is a ladder into the tree, so our defensible space clearing there limbs trees up and clears what grows beneath them.

Tuolumne

Tuolumne Road, east of Sonora

Tuolumne has larger lots where the oaks give way to pines, and CAL FIRE's local unit credits the Ponderosa-Mira Monte fuel break with stopping the August 2024 Canyon Fire at Buchanan Road. We cut breaks along drives, fence lines and outbuildings as part of lot and land clearing.

Twain Harte

Highway 108, east of Sonora

Also Sugar Pine

About 45 percent of the homes in Twain Harte are seasonal or second homes (2020 Census), and the town center is mapped Very High fire hazard. Owners who live away walk the lot with us by phone, and our defensible space clearing ends with before and after photos.

Mi-Wuk Village

Highway 108, above Twain Harte

Also Long Barn and Cold Springs

Mi-Wuk Village, Long Barn and Cold Springs are cabins under tall pines, where ponderosa needles keep falling from late September into January. Our brush clearing up here takes in the needles too, around cabins, decks and propane tanks.

Groveland

Highway 120, toward Yosemite

Also Big Oak Flat and Pine Mountain Lake

Groveland and Big Oak Flat sit on Highway 120 toward Yosemite, and at Pine Mountain Lake, the county's largest subdivision, the association runs its own inspections with CAL FIRE that go further than state law. Our lot and land clearing there works to those rules, including the association's permit for any tree over 5 inches across.

Angels Camp

Highways 49 and 4, north of Sonora

Angels Camp is the only incorporated city in Calaveras County, and its own code has every combustible weed on a lot under an acre cut to under 4 inches. The city starts inspections and mails weed notices the first week in May, so spring is the time for lot and land clearing there.

Murphys

Highway 4, east of Angels Camp

CAL FIRE says the heavier brush around Murphys is at its most fire-prone by midsummer, and its Murphys station focuses inspections on the Murphys Pines and Darby subdivisions. Our brush clearing there cuts that brush back before summer dries it out.

Arnold

Highway 4, above Murphys

Also Avery and Hathaway Pines

Arnold, Avery and Hathaway Pines are pine forest up Highway 4, each mapped Very High fire hazard at its town center, and nine of the 13 homeowner associations on the corridor hold Firewise status. Our defensible space clearing covers the subdivisions around Arnold too, from White Pines and Forest Meadows to Big Trees Village.

Copperopolis

Highway 4, west of Angels Camp

Around Copperopolis, Copper Cove and the Diamond XX and Circle XX subdivisions are light, flashy grass on rolling ground, with one road in and out. We cut that grass and keep the 100 feet around each house clear as defensible space clearing.

San Andreas

Highway 49, north of Angels Camp

San Andreas is the county seat and home to CAL FIRE's Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit headquarters, and in the hills around it much of the manzanita and chamise has grown past six feet. Our brush clearing takes that old brush down to the ground, then chips it or hauls it away.

Mokelumne Hill

Highway 49, north of San Andreas

Mokelumne Hill sits on the Mokelumne River canyon rim, and CAL FIRE says the fuel break built there, with nearly every landowner taking part, helped when the 2015 Butte Fire burned toward town. We clear the 100 feet around homes on the rim as defensible space clearing.

Mountain Ranch

Mountain Ranch Road, east of San Andreas

Around Mountain Ranch the low country is brush, grass and oak, with timber over heavy brush higher up, and the 1992 Old Gulch Fire burned about 17,419 acres just south of town. We cut fire breaks and clear acreage there as lot and land clearing.

West Point

Upper Highway 26, east of Mokelumne Hill

CAL FIRE maps almost all of the West Point area Very High fire hazard and notes the Delta breeze arrives about a day after it reaches the valley, so fire weather lasts a day longer. Our brush clearing there takes out the heavy brush growing under the timber.

Valley Springs

Highways 12 and 26, west of San Andreas

Also Rancho Calaveras

Valley Springs and Rancho Calaveras are grass, oak and chaparral country near New Hogan Reservoir, and the August 2026 Gann Fire started on Hogan Dam Road in Valley Springs. We mow the grass and cut fire breaks on lots and acreage there as lot and land clearing.