Berthoud Test

Berthoud's CWPP is the rare wildfire plan where the scariest chapter isn't about trees, because there basically aren't any: the whole document is a polite, extensively footnoted way of saying "the grass is cured, the wind is 60, please stop parking hot trucks in it." Berthoud Fire covers a district that's mostly ranchland, subdivisions, and the gap between them, which means their idea of a wildland-urban interface is a fence line separating a hayfield from forty houses with cedar mulch beds. The plan's real message is Marshall Fire trauma in a trench coat, delivered in March instead of July, and honestly they're right.