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) |
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