yeah, we, we wiped out, we did an underburn. >> reporter: this was the first time batha had done what'sescribed burn on his 24 acre property. he said his decision was guided by a desire to make his land more resilnt to wildfires in the future. >> i didn't really have this as in my vision. i think this came along because of all the fires have been around here, and it's feeling deadly serious to the folks with land around here. >> reporter: the edge of the dixie fire, which burned nearly a million acres last year, was just north of batha's property. over more than three months it blazed across five california counties boming the single largest wildfire in state history. in august, it ripped through the town of greenville, destroying nearly 75% of its structures. today, there's not much left of downtown, houses have been leveled, and commercial buildings have been reduced to rubble. >> the fire kind of spread along the bottom of the hill along the highway and then came up around this way. >> reporter: jeff greef's property is less than two miles from the center of greenville. the assembly