Wildfire Mitigation Services LLC provides recommendations for taking proactive steps to protect your home-property from the threat of wildfire. These recommendations focus on specific – key areas of defense to show where you can effectively harden your home and property against wildfire.

” What is your Home Ignition Zone (HIZ)? – It’s the three area zones on your home property, which include the: Immediate Zone that is 0 to 5 feet around the home, the Intermediate Zone that is 5 to 30 feet and the Extended Zone that is the 30 to 100 feet zone or potentially further. Limiting the amount of flammable vegetation, choosing fire-resistant building materials and construction techniques, and periodically maintaining the areas within the Home Ignition Zone all help to increase the chances your home can survive a wildfire when exposed to embers and/or a surface fire.

Preparing your home against the threat of wildfire involves looking at both vegetation management and fire resistive construction. Furthermore, wildfire preparedness at the community level, also, requires that you are prepared in terms of emergency responder access, a disaster plan, and an annual insurance checkup. ”

(Firewise USA, 2020).

Send me an email on the ‘Contact Us’ page to ask any questions you may have about getting a HIZ Assessment for your home and before the threat of a wildfire in your area.

What can be done for you and your family home – these areas will be assessed during your Home Ignition Zone (HIZ) Assessment :

1. Fire assessment of Immediate, Intermediate, and Extended Zones
2. House and outbuildings assessment (Structure Assessment) positioned in relationship
   to severe fire behavior
3. Examination of ignition potential of your home;
4. Fire assessment from chimney to eaves
5. Fire assessment from eaves to foundation
6. Fire assessment of landscape in relationship to severe fire behavior – Defensible Space
7. A complete review of the areas relative to your home’s ignition zone

Reduce your wildfire risk with a Home Ignition Zone (HIZ) fire assessment. Use this personalized fire assessment for your home property’s protection, give the HIZ fire assessment to either a general contractor and/or Landscaper or gardener to undertake professionally qualified work on your home property.

Protect your home from ignition potential vulnerabilities on your home structure and make your property a safe place to work for fire-fighters to protect, during the next wildfire event.

An on-site assessment of your property’s Home Ignition Zone (HIZ) by an accredited Wildfire Mitigation Specialist.

An electronic/digital copy of your Home Ignition Zone (HIZ) Assessment with personalized Mitigation Recommendations.

Please email your request for a Home Ignition Zone Assessment on the ‘Contact Us’ webpage and to ask any other questions you may have about a HIZ Assessment for your home-property before the threat of a wildfire in your area.