Best Practices for Building Fire-Resilient Homes

Each year, more and more of our neighborhoods are finding themselves part of Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Zones, partially because of the increase in regions seeing large forest fires, but also because of the growth of home construction in these regions. Yet these places are not only in the historically dry, rural canyons of the Southwest—wildfire risks exist across a wide range of geographical locations, so more homes are at risk than many might assume. Fortunately, some of the choices we make when designing and building our homes can greatly reduce the chance of them catching on fire, even when a wildfire strikes our communities. In this webinar recording expert Chris Laumer-Giddens outlines some of these strategies based on the success stories he has seen in his work.