The council is working with land owners to clear fuel under power lines in the December 23 fire ground and push up the burnt vegetation into piles on private property ready to burn once the fire danger season ends in April.

Although no council infrastructure was burnt in the December bushfire a lot of vegetation on road reserves was burnt and council staff took the opportunity to assess the way road reserves were managed on the fringe of the city.

With the road verges clear they will be graded so they can be slashed as vegetation grows back, keeping the fuel load down long-term.

Because the council cannot burn off on road reserves it has an agreement with about 20 land owners to stock pile the cleared vegetation on their properties for burning in winter.

Port Lincoln Bushfire Prevention Committee chairman Neville Starke said there would be a lot of publicity when the piles would be burnt and there would be organised burns where piles in different areas were burned on different days so fire services could keep an eye on them.

He said people would have to be patient with smoke "because there will be a bit but it will be better than what we put up with on December 23".

But he is still concerned the only applications to clear further than the standard 20 metres around dwellings and five metres around perimeters have come from people in the fire ground who want to clear burnt vegetation.

Mr Starke said there were other areas such as around Happy Valley Road and near the Cemetery Reserve that still presented a significant fire risk and he hoped to see property owners in these areas applying for extra clearance for fire prevention.

He said the fire had been a "big wake up call" for people on and around the fire ground but people in other areas needed to realise it cold happen to them too.

"I implore people to get applications in and do something."

Mayor Peter Davis first called for vegetation to be cleared from under major infrastructure such as power lines in a report after the Proper Bay fire in January 2009 and he is pleased with the work that has been done around Nootina, Grantala, New West and Kurara roads.

He said the clearing went beyond his expectations and everyone who had been involved should be proud.