Wildfire Response
Wildfire season is active
You cannot change the wind or the drought. You can change the five feet around your walls, and that is the single biggest thing that decides whether an ember becomes a house fire. Here is the zone-by-zone guide, free, no sign-up needed to read it.
Coming to your state
Our scored assessment runs on state-specific wildfire data, and it is live in Texas first while we bring more states online. Drop your email and we’ll tell you the day it opens where you live. The guide below works for everyone, right now.
Defensible space, zone by zone
Fire scientists split the ground around a home into three bands. The closer the band, the more each hour of work pays off. Start at the walls and move out. Framework: NFPA 1144 and the national Firewise USA program.
0 to 5 feet
The immediate zone
This is the ember zone, and it does the most to protect your home. Wind-blown embers, not the wall of flame, start most house fires in the wildland-urban interface.
5 to 30 feet
The intermediate zone
Break up the path a fire would take toward the house. The goal is separation, not a bare lot.
30 to 100 feet
The extended zone
Out here the job is to slow a fire down and drop its intensity before it reaches the closer zones.
Clear the first five feet around your house. Rake out the bark mulch, pull the dead plants, move the firewood and the doormat, and empty the gutters. Embers land in that band and find something to catch. Take it away and you have taken away the most common way a wildfire reaches a home.
Home Health Intel is a home-condition documentation tool. This page is general wildfire-preparedness education, not advice about any insurance policy or claim. For emergency information and evacuation orders, always follow your local fire authority and Ready.gov.
Wildfire Response
Wildfire season is active
You cannot change the wind or the drought. You can change the five feet around your walls, and that is the single biggest thing that decides whether an ember becomes a house fire. Here is the zone-by-zone guide, free, no sign-up needed to read it.
Coming to your state
Our scored assessment runs on state-specific wildfire data, and it is live in Texas first while we bring more states online. Drop your email and we’ll tell you the day it opens where you live. The guide below works for everyone, right now.
Defensible space, zone by zone
Fire scientists split the ground around a home into three bands. The closer the band, the more each hour of work pays off. Start at the walls and move out. Framework: NFPA 1144 and the national Firewise USA program.
0 to 5 feet
The immediate zone
This is the ember zone, and it does the most to protect your home. Wind-blown embers, not the wall of flame, start most house fires in the wildland-urban interface.
5 to 30 feet
The intermediate zone
Break up the path a fire would take toward the house. The goal is separation, not a bare lot.
30 to 100 feet
The extended zone
Out here the job is to slow a fire down and drop its intensity before it reaches the closer zones.
Clear the first five feet around your house. Rake out the bark mulch, pull the dead plants, move the firewood and the doormat, and empty the gutters. Embers land in that band and find something to catch. Take it away and you have taken away the most common way a wildfire reaches a home.
Home Health Intel is a home-condition documentation tool. This page is general wildfire-preparedness education, not advice about any insurance policy or claim. For emergency information and evacuation orders, always follow your local fire authority and Ready.gov.
