Home & Property
In Your Community
Wildfire resilience is a community commitment
You can clear defensible space, harden your home, thin your trees and clean your gutters.
But if a property next door has dense vegetation, firewood stacked against flammable siding, or filled with ladder fuels, embers can carry that risk straight to your home.
Wildfire resilience isn’t just one individual’s responsibility, it is a shared responsibility in the community.
The Shared Risk
Wildfire spreads differently than many people expect.
It’s not just a wall of flames moving through the forest. It can be wind-driven embers that can travel up to 5 miles and land in vulnerable places:
- Dry pine needles on a roof
- Leaves in gutters
- Wood mulch against siding
- Fences connected directly to homes
- Untrimmed shrubs under eaves
If one home ignites, it can become fuel for neighboring structures.
Preparation is not just about your parcel. It’s about the entire ignition zone surrounding your home—including your neighbors’.
Good Neighbors.
Stronger Community.
Wildfire preparedness is an act of personal responsibility.
It is also an act of care.
When you clear your defensible space, you protect your neighbor.
When they do the same, they protect you.
This is how resilient communities are built — not through fear, not through blame — but through shared commitment.
- Landscape, Preparedness
- Homeowner, Landowner, Renter
- During, Preparedness, Recovery
- Family, Homeowner, Renter
