Making Your Home Wildfire Resistant

You can help defend your property against wildfire with these steps:

Remove

Dry vegetation (dead grass, leaves and shrubs) within 30 feet of your home
Highly flammable plants (like juniper, saw palmetto, wax myrtle, holly, ect.) within 10 feet of your home
Tree branches within 6-10 feet of the ground and other ladder fuels that link combustible grass and shrubs with combustible treetops
Combustible materials from near your home (fibrous mulch, stacks of firewood, fuel containers, ect.)
Combustible materials from under decks and walkways

Plant

Ignition-resistant (deciduous or those with high moisture content) plants near your home
Flammable shrubs and trees, separated and trimmed to prevent continuous fuel beds at least 30 feet from buildings
Shrub islands or patches of perennials rather than a continous bed of combustible vegetation in your yard

Install

A roof "assembly" that is rated Class A,B,or C. Ensure that roofs do not allow openings that would provide entry to buring embers
Eave soffits and eaves made with fire-resistant materials
Noncombustible gutters and downspouts and keep tham clear of combustible litter
Noncombustible screening to block openings that could allow burning embers to enter the attic and interior spaces
Non-combustible screening under elevated decks and structural overhangs to prevent the entry of buring embers
Fire-resistant wall cladding such as masonry, stucco or fiber cement siding materials
Spark arresters in all chimney outlets
Noncombustible skirting around manufactured/mobile homes (metal skirting resists flame contact while vinyl skirting melts and supports moderate flaming)