Your Firewise Community Needs You! Every year Residents in Firewise USA® Communities are required to submit a certain amount of “Firewise activities” to maintain their “In Good Standing” status. Each November, Firewise Community Leaders must reapply. Please submit your Firewise Activities to ensure your community remains “In Good Standing.” Firewise Activities you are probably already
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Wildfire risk keeps growing, and so do home insurance costs. Many homeowners are asking how to make their homes safer, and what it will cost. Upfront costs for wildfire-resistant retrofits range from modest to significant. But new research suggests the price tag is only part of the story. The benefits beyond fire protection Headwaters Economics
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Great news: Governor Newsom has signed the first-in-the-nation standards for testing and remediating hazardous wildfire smoke contamination for future fires and requires insurers to cover qualifying smoke damage, testing, remediation, and restoration. California Enacts First-in-Nation Standards for Smoke-Damaged Homes In the ashes of the January 2025 wildfires, thousands of Los Angeles-area homeowners have faced a
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Make September the Month You Get Your Mitigation Work Done. September marks Wildfire Prevention Month, positioned at the point in the calendar when much of the western United States is at peak fire risk — vegetation is at its driest, and fire activity historically remains high through early fall. The month is used by fire
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We strongly advise all residents to download and use the Watch Duty App. Watch Duty, the wildfire tracking and alert app, marks five years of operation this year, having launched in August 2021. In that time, it has grown from a single-county volunteer project into one of the most widely used wildfire information tools in
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CA Board of Forestry and Fire Protection Approves First-in-the-Nation Zone 0 Regulations. Thank you to the CA Board of Forestry and Fire Protection. They have worked tirelessly to complete these regulations. No, we didn’t all get everything we wanted but we all got something that will keep us all safer from wildfire. This has to
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Wildfires aren’t just a California problem. They’re burning on four continents at once, and the numbers this week are staggering. Here’s where things stand as of July 30, 2026. The US: 92 large fires and counting. Firefighters are currently working to suppress and contain 92 large fires across the country, with 9 new large incidents
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Home Hardening Benefits are driving a whole new wave of Home Wildfire Protection Products. As wildfire seasons grow longer and more intense, so has the market for products designed to help homes survive them. What used to be a fairly narrow category—defensible space and maybe a fire-resistant roof—has expanded into a genuine industry, with new
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Momentum is building to solve home insurance crisis. California lawmakers are finally doing something about the insurance mess wildfire survivors have been dealing with since the LA fires wiped out roughly 11,000 homes two years ago. The bad news: it’s a lot of moving pieces, some are law already, some are still bills, and none
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Wildfire is shaping the CA Insurance Market. Stanford University Climate and Energy Policy Program has released a white paper that looks at the current home insurance crisis with origins like Prop 103 that goes back as far 1988. Proposition 103, although enacted to manage a surge in the auto insurance premiums, established a statutory framework
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