California coverage · Region
Sierra & Foothills
Slope, snow load, and defensible space as the starting point.
Designing in the Sierra & Foothills
From the Sacramento edge up to the Tahoe basin, sites gain a thousand feet of elevation in a few miles, and the design questions change with them: aspect decides the planting palette, slope decides what can be built without an engineered wall, and the growing season shortens by weeks per thousand feet. This is terrain where a base map without real contours is not a base map.
2 counties, guide by guide
Each guide states exactly what resolves in that county, every layer cited to its source.
Fire, in the Sierra & Foothills
Nearly every foothill parcel is in a designated hazard zone, so Zone 0 / 1 / 2 defensible space is not an overlay on the design here — it is the organising principle of the planting plan.
Water districts & rebates
Lawn-replacement rebate estimates are matched to the district serving the parcel. Across the Sierra & Foothills that means City of Roseville Environmental Utilities · Placer County Water Agency · El Dorado Irrigation District.
Start with a Sierra & Foothills address
Free to search. The county, the jurisdiction and the zone all resolve from the parcel.