Best Practices:

Protect home base - Cover the bottom 6" of your exterior with non-combustable siding.

The First Five Feet - Create a Noncombustible Zone Around Your Home

PROTECT YOUR HOME AGAINST WILDFIRES

This applies to homes with siding made of combustible material like:

Wood

Vinyl

Pressboard

Wood-plastic composite

Why harden your home?

Home hardening is the process of making your existing home and accessory structures as fire resilient as possible through home retrofits and strategic maintenance. During a wildfire, embers can be blown from over a mile away, landing on your roof, accumulating at the base of your walls, and entering your house through the vents and the sides of your house, and igniting material on or under decks. Ember showers ignite homes more frequently than direct contact with flames.