With wildfires happening more often and burning more area, homes need to be “hardened” to make them more fire-resistant ...

KB Home is the first large production builder to unveil a community designed to fire-resilient standards by the Insurance ...

Some cities had fewer acres in the very high risk designation, but most of the region had more high risk acreage.

The homes are built with covered gutters, enclosed eaves, noncombustible siding — like stucco and fiber cement — tempered-glass windows ... his colleagues saw a fire-resistant home ...

Wildfires have already caused significant damage in 2025. In January, the Eaton and Palisades fires burned nearly 40,000 ...

shatter-proof glass and ember-resistant attic and garage vents. Landscaping: Residents in very-high fire zones also will have to maintain “defensible space” within 100 feet of buildings ...

After wildfires destroyed more than 15,000 structures in California, builder KB Home is developing a community of ...

which mandates that homes have fire-resistant roofs and rain gutters, have outer walls capable of withstanding heat and flames for up to an hour, have double-pane windows with tempered, shatter-proof ...

These include defensible space requirements and home hardening measures in new construction, for example using ignition-resistant ... glass in the upper left corner tosee the fire hazard zone ...

shatter-proof glass and ember-resistant attic and garage vents. Barger and Yanagisawa said the updated maps would not impede the permitting process for those looking to rebuild post-fire.

Panama City Beach firefighters arrived at the Gulf Crest Condominiums tower Monday night to find smoke and flames pouring out of one of the 15th-floor units that ...