Blakemont Firewise Community includes 89 Kensington properties.
Blakemont Firewise Community includes 89 Kensington properties.
First Recognized, September 2025
First Recognized, September 2025
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Our Firewise Community boundaries encompass the residential streets that feed into key evacuation routes running through Sunset Cemetery and down Moeser Lane. The area also includes a notable landmark — the Carmelite Monastery/Blake Garden. The garden is open to the public and serves as a teaching facility and landscape laboratory for UC Berkeley’s Department of Landscape Architecture & Environmental Planning.
In 2025, we established our Firewise Community to enhance wildfire resilience on our properties and to collaborate with UC Berkeley on vegetation management on their 10-acre parcel.
Report Household Activities
Report Household Activities
This 15' x 50' slope was overgrown with vegetation, including a huge, hazardous juniper hedge. Flames would threaten both the home and the cars evacuating on Arlington Avenue. It's now been cleared and replanted with less fire-prone plants.
Household Activity Reports ensure Firewise Recognition is renewed annually. They also help shape Kensington's wildfire programs.
Participating households track and report their risk reduction activities online or via email. Contact your organizers for details.
Organizers compile neighborhood numbers and report them to Firewise USA each year. Residents' personal information is never shared.
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