Summertime is fire season. Red-Flag Warnings abound and many property owners surrounded by acres of forest or tall grass often become acutely aware that their homes are more vulnerable this time of year. There’s no perfect method to avoid a wildfire disaster, but there are ways to reduce that risk.
The most immediate and obvious step is to remove any abundance of combustible debris from the property, especially along the ground. Even among tall trees, most fires will travel low, staying at ground level. The more combustible material available in the fire’s path, the longer and hotter it will burn. You don’t have to remove trees from your property to make yourself safer from a fire, but you should remove the debris they drop.
This helps reduce the threat of a super hot fire, but it certainly doesn’t make a property fireproof. There’s no way to make a rural property totally fireproof without decimating it and paving it over but that totally eliminates the purpose of having it; however, there is a way to make very specific sections of a rural property fireproof without destroying too much of its natural appeal.