Resources to Learn About Wildfire Hardening and Defensible Space

Diagram of a house with labels indicating roof features, windows, doors, barriers, and landscape zones that require retrofit for home hardening and landscape changes to affect defensible space.
A yard layout diagram showing Zone 0, Zone 1, and Zone 2 defensible spaces around a house.

Defensible Space Zone 0-2

Ensure both the immediate area around your home - zero to five feet - is non-combustible. Landscaping the 5-30 feet zone, if applicable, the 30-100 foot zone is critical to ensuring fire never finds a flammable path to get near your home

Diagram of a house highlighting unsealed and combustible home features that need to be sealed and made non-combustible including roof, eaves, siding, windows, mulch, openings, and deck with labels and descriptions for each component.

Home Hardening

There are many things you can do to ensure to minimize the risks that both embers and flames do not impact your home. Some are high priority and low cost such as vent covers that prevent ember intrusion. Others are high cost and lower priority (for many people) such as replacing siding to a non-combustible material.