How to Harden Homes Against Wildfire

Visit CAL FIRE's Hardening Your Home website for more information, including the Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide.

This Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide includes specific recommendations for how to retrofit existing components of a home to withstand wildfre. Each section contains an explanation of how the component is vulnerable to wildfire and what can be done to improve that component. The illustrations throughout the guide are intended to show best practices for reducing the vulnerability of a home to wildfire. This guide addresses recommendations for siding, chimneys, roofs, skylights, fences, roof edges, windows, rain gutters, decks, garages, and vents.