Screening your vents: the $60 upgrade that stops embers at the door
Post-fire investigations keep finding the same thing: the house burned from the inside, and the embers came in through a vent. Here is the afternoon that closes that door.
Guides
Fire weather in the valley: how you’ll be warned, and when to go
October through December is when the valley burns. Here is how warnings reach you, how to look up your evacuation zone before you need it, and why leaving on a warning beats leaving on an order.
Most of the valley’s Firewise work never gets counted. Here’s how to fix that in two minutes.
NFPA’s renewal rule is simple: one hour of wildfire-risk work per home per year, community-wide. The work gets done. The problem is that almost nobody records it.
The ten things your insurer has to give you credit for
California’s Safer from Wildfires rule names ten specific mitigation steps that insurers writing policies in the state must recognize with a discount. Nine are on your property. One is being in a recognized Firewise community.