- Store firewood and any other flammable items a good distance away from your house.
- Create a 30-foot perimeter around your home where nothing touches it. Keep wild grass mowed short, and trim trees away from your siding and roof so a fast-moving ground fire can’t climb up a tree and spill onto your roof.
- Examine your yard for fire hazards and for possible pathways that a flame could take to easily get from the shed where you keep your lawnmower into your house.
- If your house is next to an alley, find a way to keep debris and overgrown weeds out of it so they don’t catch on fire and send flames your way.
- Widen your driveway to at least 12 feet so firefighters can get their equipment through in case of a fire.
- When you build a shed or other outbuilding on your property, locate it at least 30 feet away from your house.
- Re-landscape your yard with drought-resistant plants. Don’t plant them too close to the house.
- If your house sits close to the one next door, replace your windows with double- or triple-panel models. Intense heat from a fire will break the windows and speed the fire to the house next door, so the more layers, the better.
- Choose a non-combustible material like stone or brick for your outside fences.
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