Btw. Fire is not a problem here. We did have a big fire in the mountains few years back that took out gatlinburg, but this area not one to be concerned for fire
Soil is red clay. Doubt I need stabilizing substrate of any kind. One thing I wander is will the ground push the culvert back to the surface over time with some time of hydraulic force from expansion and contraction. Is there a way to anchor to ground if this is something that actually happens and not my imagination to keep it from moving