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.

Truckee Fire offers free Curbside Green Waste Pick-Up. Pile your woody biomass at the curb, request a pick-up, and our crew will collect it with a grapple truck and haul it away!

How to Prepare Your Pile:
- Stack material neatly at the curb of a public road with cut ends facing the street
- Keep piles under 6 feet high
- Maintain 3 feet of clearance from hydrants, snow poles, utility boxes, trees, retaining walls, etc.
- Ensure 15 feet of overhead clearance from power and communication lines
- Stack all material in one continuous, consolidated pile, not multiple small piles.

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

Not Accepted:
- Pine needles, cones, bark
- Bags of any kind
- Roots, stumps or root wads
- Scrap lumber or construction debris
- Tractor piles, commercial or timber harvest material
- Garbage, metal, rocks, firewood rounds

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.