Urban Fuels Sample Clauses

Urban Fuels. Urban fuels consist of structures, ornamental vegetation, roads, and parking lots. The City has urban development encroaching into the wildland environment. Oakmont, Wildoak, Fountaingrove, Xxxxxxx Valley, Skyhawk and Montecito, each represent residential developments with a substantial wildland fuel component. While the Wildland Urban Interface map developed by the City captures most of the true interface locations, as the Xxxxxx Park neighborhood demonstrated during the Xxxxx Fire, a neighborhood does not have to be in a defined Wildland Interface Area to be susceptible to wildfire. A wildfire being pushed by strong winds has the potential to blow burning embers into urban neighborhoods, where ornamental vegetation or unhardened structures have the potential to transfer the wildfire from natural fuels to structures, which then propagate fire spread in an urban conflagration. Open Space, Parks, and unimproved enclaves consist of wildland vegetation that provide recreational opportunities to residents of the City, lands preserved as open space and local, County and State Parks all provide a linkage of wildland fuels to the City. Even with as much of Trione-Annadel State Park was burned during the 2017 Nuns Fire, a heavy mixed oak and conifer fuel load remained unburned especially along Channel Drive south of Oakmont, and east of Summerfield Road in the vicinity of Annadel Heights. Spring Lake Regional Park has a well- maintained fuel component in the park, while the City-owned Xxxxxxx Park has a significant load of dead herbaceous fuels near areas of high recreational use, thereby increasing the likelihood of an accidental ignition within the Park boundaries. Skyhawk Park and Xxxxxx Xxxx Open Space also are locations that bring wildland vegetation into the community. Fuel continuity in these locations will allow fire to spread into adjacent residential neighborhoods.