For volunteer Fire Safe Council boards
The website standard
for California’s
Fire Safe Councils.
Your board carries one job above the rest: getting residents ready before the next fire. Your website should be the tool that does it. Most council sites are honest, hard-working info pages built by a volunteer, and they quietly do not. We build the one that does. We proved it with the San Elijo Hills Fire Safe Council, a grant may cover it, and your volunteers barely lift a finger.
Free audit, 30 seconds, no account required. Or book a call.
Proven in fire country
Live on a real California Fire Safe Council site
Grant-fundable
Qualifies under wildfire education and outreach
Done for you
One interview, two reviews, live in 30 days
You own it
One-time cost, no subscription, no lock-in
The San Elijo Hills Fire Safe Council site, rebuilt in 30 days. Drag the slider, or see it live at sehfsc.org.
The old job was to exist.
The new job is to move people.
Your current site probably works. It loads, Google finds it, the hours are right. That is the old job, and there is nothing wrong with doing it. But a Fire Safe Council is not a phone book. The site has to get a homeowner in Zone 0850 to find their evacuation route, register for Firewise, and claim the insurance discount the law entitles them to, in the ten seconds before they give up and close the tab.
That is not a design preference. In fire country it is the difference between a resident who is ready and one who is not. That is the site we build.
Proof, on a real council site
San Elijo Hills Fire Safe Council: from a 42/100 info page to a preparedness hub.
We ran their old site through our free audit. It scored 42 out of 100. The homepage had 140 visible words, mostly navigation and legal boilerplate, and the first interactive element was a four-click audio welcome message. A community across five evacuation zones could not get to its own protection plans. Here is everything the finished site now does, on one page.
42 to a real hub
From a thin info page to five evacuation zones, protection plans, and Firewise reporting.
30 days
One interview, two reviews, then live. The volunteer board never touched the build.
Insurance call-out
The California Firewise insurance discount, put in front of every resident.
Who builds it
Two founders. Not an agency, not a chatbot.
The same two people who build your site are the ones who answer when you call. No account managers, no ticket queue, no offshore handoff. We took on the San Elijo Hills site because the work matters: getting a family to their evacuation plan before the fire, not after.
You do one interview and two reviews. We write every word and build every page. Your board stays focused on protecting the community, and two accountable humans handle the rest.
The standard we set with San Elijo Hills.
It does things most government and council sites cannot. Every one of these is live on the San Elijo Hills site today, and every one is included in the flat price.
We build to the Firewise USA and CFSC preparedness standards: the zone maps, the reporting, and the insurance call-out your recognition and your residents depend on.
Emergency alerts that turn themselves on
The site watches CAL FIRE and the National Weather Service and raises a warning banner the moment a fire comes within 25 miles, or a Red Flag or evacuation order is issued. No volunteer has to remember to switch it on.
It works when cell and internet go down
Residents save the site to their phone like an app. The evacuation plan, the go-bag list, their zone, and 911 info stay available even when the network fails during a fire.
Live safety tools in one place
A Firewise zone map, live fire weather, real-time air quality and smoke levels, active-fire tracking from Watch Duty and Genasys, and a find-your-evacuation-zone tool, one tap from any page.
Full English and Spanish
Every page switches with one tap, and Spanish-speaking residents can find the site in a Spanish Google search and read all of it in Spanish.
Accessible to everyone
Meets ADA accessibility standards with clear text, strong contrast, and screen-reader support, plus a published accessibility statement. For a public-safety organization, that is not optional.
Firewise reporting and the insurance discount
The zone map and volunteer-hours forms your Firewise recognition depends on, and the California insurance discount put in front of every resident who visits.
Every one of these is live right now. See it on sehfsc.org →
A possible way to fund it
Your council may not have to pay for this out of pocket.
California wildfire-prevention grant programs fund community education and outreach, and a preparedness website falls under that category. For many councils, a grant can cover part or all of the cost.
CFSC State Fire Capacity Grant
The California Fire Safe Council program funds wildfire prevention and mitigation education and outreach, the category a preparedness website falls under.
CAL FIRE Wildfire Prevention Grants
State grants that fund community education and outreach on wildfire preparedness.
California Fire Foundation, Proposition 4
New wildfire-resilience funding opening in Fall 2026 for community preparedness work.
To be straight with you: funding is not guaranteed. These programs have eligibility rules, cost-share match requirements, and application windows that open and close. What we do is help you scope the website into a grant application so it is positioned to qualify. We are not grant writers and we do not promise an award, we make the site fundable and hand you a clear scope to submit.
Grant cycles have fixed windows. New Proposition 4 wildfire-resilience funding opens in Fall 2026, and the applications positioned to move are the ones that already have a scoped preparedness website ready to attach. Scoping now means you are ready to submit, not scrambling.
One flat price. Thirty days. You own it.
- ✓Strategy, design, and every word of copy, written for your community
- ✓Evacuation zones, protection plans, Firewise reporting, insurance call-out
- ✓Live in 30 days: one interview, two reviews, done
- ✓You own the code, the domain, and the content. No lock-in.
- ✓Two founders on your project, no account managers
- ✓Optional care from $100/mo. Cancel anytime.
Our guarantee
Live within 30 days of your board approving the copy, or your first three months of care are free. And if you are not satisfied within 7 days of launch, we keep working until you are. No argument, no charge.
Bring it to your board as what it is: a one-time, grant-eligible investment in resident safety that the council owns outright, not a recurring bill. Ask us and we will help you scope the grant.
This is our standard done-for-you build, applied to fire councils. See how our pricing works or the other industries we build for.
See what a resident sees on your council’s site.
Run your council’s free audit. You will get the same report we ran on San Elijo Hills, in about 30 seconds, no account required.
Rather talk first? Book a 30-minute call.
Fire council websites: common questions
How much does a fire council website cost?
A flat $7,500, delivered in 30 days, everything included: strategy, design, every word of copy, evacuation and preparedness content, and Firewise reporting. You own the code, the domain, and the content, with no monthly platform fee. Optional care is from $100 a month.
Can a grant pay for it?
It can qualify. California wildfire-prevention grant programs fund community education and outreach, and a preparedness website falls under that category. Funding is not guaranteed: programs have eligibility rules, cost-share match requirements, and application windows. We will help you scope the site into a grant application so a grant can cover part or all of the cost.
How do we justify the cost to our board or donors?
Frame it as what it is: a one-time, grant-eligible investment in resident safety that the council owns outright, not a recurring bill. It is the tool that gets residents to actually prepare, and a wildfire-prevention grant may cover it. That is mission spend, not overhead. You can download a one-page board summary from this page to bring to your next board meeting.
We are volunteer-run. Is this too much for us?
It is built for exactly this. You do one interview and two reviews. We write every word and build every page. Your board focuses on protecting the community, and we handle the site, so the hardest part of your web presence is off your plate.
How long does it take?
30 days from start to launch. One interview up front, two review rounds, then your council's site goes live, evacuation plans, Firewise reporting, insurance call-out, and all.
Do we own the site?
Completely. The code, the domain, and the content are yours. No lock-in and no monthly platform fee. If you ever move on, the whole site comes with you.
The Good Site Co is an independent web studio and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the California Fire Safe Council, Firewise USA, or CAL FIRE. Grant program names are referenced for informational purposes only, and funding is subject to each program’s eligibility rules and application windows.