This recent disturbing graph from CAL FIRE, clearly emphasizes that it is not so much the number of fires that have increased over the past year, but the size and severity of the fires that is most concerning. Our homes have become the number one source of fuel for wildfires.
COMMUNITY WILDFIRE RISK ASSESSMENTS
Calabasas Firewise is currently doing our first round of Community Wildfire Risk Assessments.
Every year, devastating wildfires burn across the United States. At the same time, a growing number of people are living where wildfires are a real risk. While these fires will continue to happen, there are things you can do to help protect your home and neighborhood as well as your family’s safety.
The NFPA Firewise USA® recognition program was designed to help people learn about wildfire and how they can make their homes and neighborhoods safer. It’s based on research that shows how to prepare homes to withstand embers and prevent flames or surface fire from igniting the home and its immediate surroundings, by working in an area known as the home ignition zone (HIZ). This is the home and everything around it within 100 feet.
The community risk assessment focuses on the vulnerability of homes and surrounding Home Ignition Zones (HIZ) to embers.
Trained assessors just completed our initial Three Calabasas Firewise USA® Community assessments.
- Calabasas Hills / Estates
- Mont Calabasas
- The Oaks
If you wish your community to get recognized as a Firewise USA® Community, please click HERE to contact us.
Click HERE to learn about the important safety and financial benefits of becoming a Firewise USA® Community.
Contact us to find out how your community can be a Calabasas Firewise community.
