Fireveyor

About

A company that writes free wildfire assessments of California properties, and has applied for the contractor's license it will do the hardening work under.

  1. 01What this is
  2. 02People
  3. 03Place
  4. 04Credentials, in this order
  5. 05The twelve rules
  6. 06What Fireveyor never does

01What this is

02People

The founder, the field lead and every crew lead go here, each with a photograph. Nobody is named here before they have agreed.

03Place

Company
Fireveyor LLC
Address
2309 Noriega St. #54, San Francisco, CA 94122
Telephone
+1 (212) 960-8811
Works in
California
The same site at
fireveyor.com, fireveyor.net and fireveyor.org. One company, one site, three names.
Who reads a request
A person at Fireveyor LLC. Not an insurer and not a government agency.

04Credentials, in this order

Each with a way to check it, and the day it was checked.

Contractor's license
The CSLB license number, with the board's own lookup beside it. No CSLB license yet. No contracting until there is one.
Insurance
General liability and commercial auto. Proof of each is posted here when bound, and attached to every proposal. Not yet.
Workers' compensation
Carried from the first day of contracting, because Fireveyor has employees from that day. Proof of it is posted here when bound. Not yet.
IBHS training
Wildfire Prepared Home training for every field lead: the course title and the day each one completed it, posted here as each does. Not yet.
California Fire Safe Council
The council's vendor listing: the day Fireveyor appeared on it, with a dated copy of the page as it stood. Not yet.
The local fire safe councils and Firewise
Documented support of the fire safe council and the Firewise sites in each county the crew works, Fire Safe Sonoma first: dated receipts, workshop records, and a site leader's own words about each contribution. Not yet.

Agency relationships, described exactly

Parcel data: County of Sonoma (Clerk-Recorder-Assessor and Permit Sonoma), used with attribution under the County's open data license; it is general reference data, not survey quality. Fire hazard severity zones, responsibility areas and historic fire perimeters: CAL FIRE and the Office of the State Fire Marshal. High fire-threat district: California Public Utilities Commission. Evacuation zones: County of Sonoma and City of Santa Rosa. Fireveyor is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, CAL FIRE, the County of Sonoma or any fire agency.

05The twelve rules

These are the rules Fireveyor works to. They are in every contract and on this page, and changing one takes the founder's signature.

  1. The assessment is free and self-contained. The full written assessment, with no visit, no account and no sales call.
  2. Every recommendation is labeled: required today, with the section cited; pending, adopted but not in force; or recommended, Fireveyor's judgment. Pending is never presented as required.
  3. Prices are published. Unit price ranges for every menu item are on this site. A quote above the published range says why, in writing.
  4. Who would do the work is named. Every report prints up to three licensed businesses for each kind of work, with their license numbers, and says an owner may use any licensed business they like, or none.
  5. The DIY column is always there. What an owner can do themselves is marked, with instructions, before any price.
  6. No same-day signing. No contract is signed on the day of the visit. Quotes stay valid for at least 30 days. A deposit is never requested in person.
  7. Payment follows work, and runs one way. The client contracts with Fireveyor and pays Fireveyor; Fireveyor pays the business that does the work. The down payment never exceeds what California law allows, and every progress payment follows a milestone the client can see in photographs.
  8. The crew is named. The client knows the crew lead's name and face before the truck arrives, and that person stays to completion.
  9. Every job produces an evidence packet: photographs, product specifications, and a line for each item naming the insurer's measure it earns. Delivered without being asked.
  10. Fireveyor never warns about fires. Alerts come from the county's emergency office and the fire districts. Fireveyor notifies owners about deadlines, rules, insurance and maintenance, and says so.
  11. No trackers, no data sales, no lists. The account holds what the owner put in it and what the public record says about the parcel. Nothing is sold, shared or scored.
  12. The license number is everywhere: on this site, the trucks, the contracts, the business cards and every advertisement, with a local telephone number and a California address.

06What Fireveyor never does