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Creating Fire Resistant Landscaping

Wildfires are destructive, deadly, and difficult to stop, but many experts agree that fire-smart landscaping is your homeu2019s best line of defense. Follow these landscape design and maintenance tips to help keep your home safe.

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Creating Fire Resistant Landscaping

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  1. Creating Fire Resistant Landscaping

  2. Wildfires are destructive, deadly, and difficult to stop, but many experts agree that fire-smart landscaping is your home’s best line of defense. Follow these landscape design and maintenance tips to help keep your home safe.

  3. Designing a Fire Resistant Yard Use stone patios, walkways, retaining walls, and other hardscape installations to create fire-safe zones Strategically place flower beds, gardens, rock, and mulch as firebreaks Opt for dense mulches, such as composted woodchips, over shredded bark Install drip systems or micro sprinklers to moisten mulched areas ahead of anticipated wildfires On a flat slope, trees should stand at least 10 feet apart, while bushes should have at least 2x their height between them

  4. Fires can spread more easily along slopes, so leave more space between trees and shrubs on steeper slopes Only build decks out of ignition-resistant or non-combustible materials Don’t plant trees below electrical lines Maintaining a Fire Resistant Yard Clear all dead plants, weeds, leaves, and branches from within 30 feet of your house Regularly mow your lawn to no more than 4” tall Keep your rain gutters clear of debris Trim any flammable plants, especially ones near windows and decks Remove any branches that hang over your roof or near your chimney Move wood piles more than 30 feet from your house

  5. Trim any tree branches that are less than 6 feet from the ground If you have trees growing over bushes, multiply the height of each bush by 3 then trim the branches that grow under that threshold Keep a garden hose ready at each spigot Make sure that your address can be easily seen by firefighters Install Fire Resistant Plants Including fire-resistant plants in your landscape can help stop the spread of fire to more vulnerable parts of your yard. Check with your local nursery or landscaper to select native species for your area.

  6. Fire Resistant Shrubs Hedging Roses Honeysuckle Currant Heather Raspberry Rose Sumac Shrub Apples Fire Resistant Trees Hardwood Maple Poplar Cherry Black Oak River Birch Crabapple Other Fire Resistant Plants & Flowers Rockrose Ice Plant Aloe Vera French Lavender Red Monkey Flower California Fuchsia Sage Lilac Coreopsis Coneflower Fescue Poppy Wooly thyme

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