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Originally Posted by onewhippedpuppy
This is an interesting point as well. To some extent building in these areas is gambling with Mother Nature. Much like building on the coast in FL, it’s not a matter of IF but WHEN. I get it, people want to live in beautiful places, I certainly don’t blame them. But there’s some inherent risk associated with living on the side of a mountain in an area prone to forest fires. 400 years ago there were probably some Indians standing around watching the same hills burn and not thinking anything of it. Much like prairie fires were a normal occurrence before we developed the Midwest and implemented more modern farming practices.
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They did more than just watch and observe. They took measures to mitigate against the threat. I linked an article somewhere earlier that talks about this.
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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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It can help a lot. To some extent, it also matters how big your lot is but you will see examples of houses in this fire that escaped destruction because of the design choices and mitigation choices they made.