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• Steps to Protect Your Home from Wildfire
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Steps to Protect Your Home from Wildfire

Things you can do to help protect your home from wildfire:

Minimal cost actions ($10–$25 and a little time)

• Install highly visible house numbers (at least 4” tall) on your home.
• Install big, highly visible house numbers (at least 4” tall) at the entrance of the driveway onto the street. Use non-flammable materials and posts.
• Install metal screens on all attic, foundation, other open ings on your home to prevent accumulation of leaves and needles.
• Hold a neighborhood meeting to talk about fire safety. Invite your local fire chief. Have coffee and donuts for neighbors.
• Install a fire extinguisher in the kitchen AND the garage.
• Install a metal shield between your home and an attached wood fence.
• Replace conifer and evergreen shrubs with low-flammable plants in your home’s defensible space.
• Thin and prune conifer trees for 30’ to 100’ around your home.

• Purchase and use a NOAA weather alert radio. Many types of emergencies are announced through this service.
• Replace vinyl gutters and downspouts with nonflammable, metal gutters and downspouts.
• Install a spark arrestor or heavy wire screen with an opening less than 1/2” on wood burning fireplaces and chimneys.

 

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