Community Wood Chipper Program
All-Community Vegetation Drop-Off: Starting June 20, 2025
Did you know you are legally required to remove flammable vegetation from a minimum of 30 feet and up to 100 feet on all sides of your home depending on fire risk? But we can help! Our Chipper Program assists residents in maintaining defensible space by providing no-cost chipping to our community.
If you are a resident of the City of Petaluma, you are invited to keep your property fire safe by bringing vegetation for chipping to our all-community drop-off site. To help you reduce the fire-fueling vegetation around your home, the Petaluma Fire Department will have a chipper and crew available to the entire community at Prince Park from June 20 through July.
Here’s how it works: you cut and remove the dangerous fire fuels from around your home and haul it to our clearly-marked site at Prince Park. Then our crews will take over and dispose of the debris.
Before hauling your vegetation to Prince Park, please note:
- The chipper cannot take raked duff, pine needles, grass or garbage bags.
- Only vegetation is allowed - no other items will be accepted.
- A maximum of 9” diameter rounds can be chipped.
Neighborhood Pick-Ups
As part of the FREE program, the City will be bringing a wood chipper to two Northeast Petaluma neighborhoods this summer. Residents in the PTL008 North and PTL011 West neighborhoods can leave cut branches, tree limbs, and vegetation on their curb for pickup the week of July 21. Residents MUST sign up for curbside chipping by July 20, 2025 at 8 PM to be eligible.
Make an appointment here.
These neighborhood zones are based on Petaluma's evacuation zones. View the map below to see if you qualify for local vegetation pick-up.
Live Outside City Limits?
Permit Sonoma has a free chipper program for residents of unincorporated Sonoma County. Please visit Permit Sonoma's page here for more information.
Questions?
Have any other questions? Email Amy Segui, Assistant Fire Marshal, at [email protected] or call the Fire Prevention Bureau at (707) 778-4389. Thank you for helping keep Petaluma Fire Safe this year!
