Lot clearing and brush mowing in Dayton, NV

Dayton is the closest town to our yard after Carson City itself, about 7 miles east on US Highway 50. That short haul matters on a clearing job, where trucks make repeated trips with logs and debris.

At a glance

• About 7 miles and 12 minutes from our yard
• About 56% of Dayton homes built in 2000 or later
• Wildfire risk to homes higher than 98.9% of US communities
• Track loader, backhoe, chipper and dump trucks in one fleet

What does a builder or owner get on a Dayton lot?

A lot that is ready for the next trade. The Census Bureau puts Dayton's median home construction year at 2002, with about 56% of homes built in 2000 or later, and the area covers about 35 square miles. There is a lot of ground still in sagebrush.

The job follows a set order:

1. A site walk with you or your builder to mark the pad, the driveway, the septic or sewer line and the utility runs
2. The arborist flags any tree worth keeping and any that will not survive construction
3. Brush is mowed or masticated; trees in the footprint are removed
4. Stumps in the build area are ground or dug out with the backhoe
5. Logs, brush and old debris are loaded and trucked off

Our service is clearing. Grading, dust control and building permits are the owner's or builder's to arrange with Lyon County; lot clearing before building in Lyon and Douglas counties lists the questions to ask.

Why clear for fire on the same visit?

Because Dayton's wildfire numbers are among the highest we work in. The USDA Forest Service ranks risk to homes here higher than 98.9% of US communities and 90% of Nevada communities. About 27% of buildings are in the direct exposure zone and the rest are in the indirect zone; none are rated minimal.

A new house needs its defensible space from the first day. Clearing the pad and thinning the 100 feet around it in one visit means the machines move in once instead of twice.

Vacant lots between the subdivisions

Growth leaves gaps: unbuilt parcels beside finished streets. They fill with dry weeds and tumbleweeds, and neighbors notice. A brush mower on a tracked Bobcat knocks a lot like that down quickly, and many owners book it again each year.

Owners holding land for later can keep it tidy on a seasonal schedule. Brush mowing covers timing.

Near the Carson River and the ditches

The Carson River runs through Dayton, and river-bottom ground grows trees and thick brush that upland lots do not. Where a parcel reaches a river bank or an irrigation ditch, ask Lyon County and the ditch owner what may be disturbed before work is planned. The agency decides. We clear what you are allowed to clear.

Large fires on the map

Ten perimeter records of 300 acres or more since 1980 have a mapped center within about 10 miles of Dayton, among them Linehan in 2006 (5,863 acres), Six Mile 2 in 2006 (1,733 acres) and Industrial in 2007 (428 acres, centered about 3 miles away).