Home Hardening

TFPD Home Hardening (Info on rebate program up to $2K, many additional resourc)

IBHS Additional Home Upgrades

IBHS Home Checklist

CA Fair Plan Home Hardening Discounts

CalFire Low-Cost Retrofit List

CalFire Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide

IBHS Protect Your Property from Wildfire – California Edition

NFPA Fact Sheets (see existing page)

 

Decks

How to Protect Your Deck from Wildfire Fire Safe Marin

 

Ember Resistant Vents

Video: DIY Vents: This Quick Trick Could Save Your Home from Wildfire

DIY Ember Resistant Adding Vents - DIY project by Susan Rogers, 2019

Vulcan Vents - for soffits/eaves, gables, foundations

 

Metal Fences & Gates 

Sleekfence

Barrier Boss

Mondaria

Nixa Doors: Gates and Fences

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NFPA and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) have developed a Wildfire Research Fact Sheet series featuring the wildfire research being done at the IBHS research facility to create more resilient communities:​

• Attic and crawl space vents 

• Coatings

• Decks

• Exterior sprinkler systems

• Fencing 

• Fire spread on ember-ignited decks

• Immediate (noncombustible) zone

• Roofing materials

• Skylights

• Under-Eave Construction