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Publication Review

Title: Protect Your Home Against Wildfire Damage
Author: Institute for Business and Home Safety, 2002
File: Free Guide, PDF 106 KB, 2 pages
Audience: For homeowners.

Review
A brief guide for homeowners living in wild fire areas. Although a national problem, this issue is perhaps more intense in the west for homes in natural settings, the mountains and along the urban-wildland interface

Issues covered include:

• create a protection zone, action plan
• build or retrofit with non-flammable materials, ideas
• when wildfire threatens, action plan
  

Detail drawings include:

• photo of a wild fire
  

Related Links

Firewise
Resource library and other information about wildfires

Institute for Business and Home Safety
Features downloadable brochures about natural hazards including wildfires.

National Database of State and Local Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs
A good place to find local programs and information about wildfire mitigation

Rocky Mountain Wildfire Information
Database of information about wildfires and prevention