Learn how to by hardening your home and creating defensible spaces prepare for wildfires
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Home hardening Home hardening refers to improvements you can make to your home to make it more resistant to wildfires. Although some of the items listed here are considerations that might be easier to implement during construction, some of them can be retroactively installed to an otherwise already complete house. Fire-resistant materials . As you will see in the following examples, “fire-resistant” or “ignition resistant” materials are important for home hardening. Although these terms may have specific definitions or requirements outlined by state building codes, they generally refer to materials that can withstand prolonged exposure to heat sources. These might also
fter the rainy months of spring and early summer, the landscape is absolutely bursting with growing green vegetation. In such a lush setting, it’s hard to imagine how anything could burn, or how a wildfire could spark. Yet wildfires can and do happen in Texas, and there is often little time to act once they have sparked. That’s why it’s important to take steps ahead of time to harden your home and create defensible spaces around it. But how exactly do you harden your home against wildfires? What does it mean to create defensible spaces around your property? We’ll explain these concepts and give you actionable steps you can take to protect your home from a future wildfire - read on!
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