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Protecting your home from wildfire
Wildland/Urban
Interface (WUI) includes areas where homes and
forests meet or mix together. Homes in these locations need special
consideration.
Wildfire Hazard Assessment
- Understand the factors that
can make a neighborhood either less or more vulnerable to a wildfire with
the Hazard & Wildfire Risk Assessment Scoresheet.
Is Your Home Firewise?
- Learn about the two most
vulnerable parts of a home, the "home ignition zone' for wildfires and
defensible space.
Firewise Construction
- How homes can be designed, built and
maintained to withstand a wildfire.
Firewise Landscaping
- "Defensible space" increases the
likelihood that a home will survive a wildfire even in the absence of
firefighters. Learn how to utilize these landscaping techniques.
Firewise Communities/ USAY-
our community or neighborhood can help with local prevention and reduced
losses to wildland/urban interface fire by participating in this national
program.
Firewise Retrofit House Demonstration
Project
- A 20-year-old wood-frame home in a high
wildfire hazard area was modified and made Firewise by creating a
"defensible space" for wildfire protection without losing the "woodsy"
look and feel. Treatments performed for this project are identified.
Fuel Reduction
- Take action now to reduce accumulated
vegetation (wildland "fuel"), before wildfires occur. Find out how you and
your neighbors can take action now to protect your community from
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