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Originally Posted by jyl
I think houses can be built to be much more fire resistant than the typical SoCal house. Fire-resistant cladding like cement board (Hardie), no eaves or fire resistant eaves w/o vents, fire-resistant roof material, appropriate landscaping. Any info on how much this helps in actual practice?
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Anything to make a home more fire resistant helps. Clearing brush back 50' from structures, fire resistant roof and sidings, clear all combustibles from near the house. With a wind driven fire like this one, the heat is so intense that even a fully concrete house can burn because at 3000*F the radiant heat comes in through the glass windows and ignites the interior furnishings. They burn from the inside out.