• Increase the minimum clearance (defensible space) requirement from 30' to 100'.
• Provide for state law, or local ordinance, rule or regulation to specify requirements of greater than 100'.
• Allows insurance companies to require home/building owners to maintain firebreaks greater than 100'.

Effective January 1, 2021, if you live in a wildland area in California you need to know about changes in the following laws.  Governor Newsom signed into law on September 29, 2020, Assembly Bill No. 3074.  This bill amended Public Resources Code (PRC) 4291 and Government Codes (GC) 51182, (GC) 51186 and (GC) 51189 in the following manner:

• Use more intense fuel reductions between 5 and 30 feet around the structure, and to create an ember-resistant zone within 5 feet of the structure.
• Gives the local agency the power to enforce.
• Measures that increase the likelihood of a structure withstanding ignition, such as building design and construction requirements that use fire resistant building materials, and standards.

View PRC 4291, GC 51182, GC 51186, GC 51189, Senate Bill 1369 and Assembly Bill 3074 on the State of California website.