Preparing for Wildfire

This page is your one stop shop for resources to help prepare you, your home, and your family for the risk of wildfire. Below, you’ll find timely information about what to do before, during, and after a wildfire emergency.

Home hardening and defensible space

Ready for Wildfire: Learn simple steps you can take to increase your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire by maintaining defensible space plus and structural hardening, plus many other resources to help prepare and protect your family and home.

CAL FIRE Defensible Space – Current defensible space zones and requirements from CAL FIRE. 

Ready San Diego: Resources to help you plan your response in the event of wildland fire, as well as ways to prepare yourself and your home before wildfire strikes. Don’t forget to download the San Diego County Emergency Smart Phone App to use on the go.

Wildfire Home Retrofit Guide: This guide will help residents and building professionals better understand how to prepare homes and communities for wildfire.

Home Hardening – Learn how you can harden your home from ember intrusion to better prepare your structure for a potential wildfire. Recommendations from UCANR with low cost retrofit recommendations.

Sustainable Defensible Space: This website contains information on defensible space zones, firewise landscaping, and home retrofits.

Firewise Landscaping – Landscaping and vegetation recommendations from UCANR. Plant the right vegetation to support biodiversity and habitat, but in the right place to follow defensible space ordinances and recommendations.

Wildfire Severity

Fire Hazard Severity Zone Maps: Based on fuel loading, slope, fire weather, and other relevant factors, CAL FIRE developed zones classifying a wildland zone as moderate, high, or very high fire hazard.

Wildfire Risk to Communities: Created by USDA and congress, this free, easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts, and resources helps communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk.