In my neck of the woods, your sale of firewood qualifies you as a commercial enterprise requiring a Timber Harvest Plan.
County government is not constitutionally required to provide fire services. In the unicorporated areas outside of cities, those services are provided by self-taxing volunteer districts or purely volunteer organizations operated on bake sales and pancake breakfasts. California Forestry and Fire Protection (CDF) provides wildfire fighting service during fire service. The California Code gives them responsibility here for visiting homes and inspecting them for fire safe compliance.
I believe as of 2008, County building codes across the state will change to require building with fire safe materials and clearing parcels of hazards prior to building.
I know what you mean about the Timber Harvest Plan, but I don’t think what we’re doing is that major. Our real intention is to clear away some bothersome, threatening oaks on a steep hill next to our road. It hasn’t been done for years and they were getting out of control.
As far as selling the wood, about 70% of it ends up in our fireplaces. I only sell, sometimes give away, a few cords a month.
We do have good protection here from CDF, and they are intimately aware of our little dead end canyon. They love the awareness that the neighborhood has and are very helpful to us.