Lands exclusive of cities and federal lands regardless of ownership, classified by the State Board of Forestry as areas in which the primary financial responsibility for preventing and suppressing fires is that of the State. These are lands covered wholly or in part by timber, brush, undergrowth or grass, whether of commercial value or not, which protect the soil from erosion, retard runoff of water or accelerated percolation, and lands used principally for range or forage purposes.
SRA is detemined by a combination of land ownership and fire protection criteria. Basically SRA occurs on non-federal lands for which fire protection is provided by the State of California or the federal government. There is no SRA in Sutter or San Francisco Counties.