The first drawing we make for a fire feature is not the feature. It is the clearance around it. On most properties here, the question a fire pit contractor in Sonoma, CA has to answer before anything else is how far the burning element sits off the house, the fence line, the eaves and the shrub layer. Get that distance wrong and every other decision on the plan has to move with it.

BayTerra Landscapes Inc has been creating high quality home and commercial gardens since 2007, and Stephen Rochlin still owns the company he founded. Those years are spent in hill country where fire behavior is part of an ordinary site visit.