Nearby Projects

• The Fire District has scheduled an informational meeting on Glenshire-area fuel reduction projects on July 23rd, 5-7 pm.  Register here.

• See the Fire District's project page for the most current information

We are fortunate to be nearly surrounded by other large-scale fuel reduction projects.  If wildfire hits The Meadows, it will likely start somewhere else.  Anything that reduces fuel in our surroundings makes us more safe.

2025 Fire District Project (purple):  This was originally planned to be merely a roadside vegetation thinning project along Glenshire Drive from Whitehorse to Hirschdale, primarily intended to improve the safety of the greater-Glenshire evacuation route.  The plan has been greatly expanded to create a treated buffer zone along the entire eastern edge of greater Glenshire.  A particular benefit to The Meadows is that the plan area includes the steep hill from Glenshire Dr up to lots 1-5 in The Meadows.  The last fire to burn to the borders of The Meadows came up that hill. The residents of Lots 1 through 5 have been given the option to participate in this project, on their private land.  That has been left as a possibility for each resident to work out with the Fire District

Greater Glenshire master plan (yellow): The Master Plan for fuel reduction in the greater-Glenshire area identified the areas in yellow as common areas that would be good candidates for the Measure T grant application.  In the end, not all of these areas made it into the application, but many did.  About 90% of the Measure T funds approved for the greater-Glenshire project are targeted to the yellow areas, the remaining ~10% for our roadside project. Because our prevailing winds come from the southwest, most historical wildfires in the Truckee area have burned to the northeast.  The last fire to burn through what is now The Meadows (in 1926) started near today's elementary and came this way.  Anything that improves the safety of the neighborhoods and wildlands south and west of us makes The Meadows as well.