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Embers are responsible for up to 90% of home ignitions. Let us show you your home's real vulnerabilities and guide you through a successful project.
Why Home Wildfire Defender?
Because we're advisors, not contractors. We're not trying to sell you a project or a product, we're trying to make you smarter, safer and more secure.
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We're consultants, not contractors. Our assessment identifies your home's real vulnerabilities and goes beyond fire department inspections.
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Wildfire mitigation for existing homes is a series of tradeoffs. You can meaningfully reduce your risk through informed choices.
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If you're considering a project, we're here to help as your owner representative offering objective analysis and guidance.
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Once we understand your project goals we help you make smart decisions based on NFPA accepted risk mitigation strategies, existing and proposed regulations and home insurance priorities.
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It all starts with a property assessment and report
Some Quick Facts About Embers
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Embers can travel several miles ahead of a wildfire in strong winds and rain down on your property sparking spot fires.
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Embers can enter your home through vents, gaps in your siding or underneath doorways. Rain gutters can collect combustible leaf and needle debris starting a roof fire.
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Red Flag days are characterized by heat, extremely low humidity and high winds, drying out trees, shrubs, leaves and even the siding on your house and creating the conditions where a small fire can explode before fire services can contain it.
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A blizzard of embers will hit against your house, gather in join areas of your roof, or at the base of an exterior wall, on or under a wooden deck or land in your gutters and start fires. ​
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However, with relatively easy and quick measures to harden your home against inevitable wildfire you CAN reduce much of your individual risk and make your family and community safer.
What is Defensible Space?
Wildfire defensible space is the cleared buffer zone between a home and surrounding vegetation, whether landscaped grasses, shrubs, bushes and trees or wild land. By removing flammable materials, defensible space slows or stops fire from reaching your home. It also gives firefighters a safe area to protect your property from.
Defensible space is usually divided into different zones, measured outward from the house or to the property line:
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Zone-0 (0 to 5 feet): Also called the Home Ignition Zone or HIZ. This is the closest, most important area. You should remove all plants, wood piles, and combustible mulch, replacing them with gravel or concrete.
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Zone 1 (5 to 30 feet): Known as the Lean, Clean, and Green Zone. You should remove all dead plants, trim tree branches at least 10 feet away from chimneys, and clear vegetation from underneath decks.
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Zone 2 (30 to 100 feet): The Reduced Fuel Zone. Cut grass short (to about 4 inches) and space out trees and shrubs so fire cannot climb or easily spread.