Preparing for Wildfire

Documents

• Wildfire Preparedness for Horse Owners
• Three Grasses to Reduce Wildfire Hazards in Northeast Colorado
• FireWise Plant Materials
• Grass Seed Mixes to Reduce Wildfire Hazard

Videos

Wildfire: Preventing Home Ignitions (at USDA RMRS)

• "Wildfire! Preventing Home Ignitions" is a 19-minute video available from the Rocky Mountain Research Station. This program tells you how a wildfire can ignite your home. A "home ignition zone," the area that includes a home and its immediate surroundings, determines a home's ignition resistance during a severe wildfire. Some of the areas covered are: how the combustion process causes home ignitions; how some homes are destroyed while others survive; and how your most effective home protection efforts can occur within the "home ignition zone". This program is a product of Jack Cohen's research at the Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, MT and part of Firewise Communities.

Protecting Your Home From Wildfire (at USDA RMRS)

• This 25-minute video features Fire Scientist Jack Cohen showing examples of homes that were unprotected during a wildfire; homes using Home Protection Guidelines (see below); and examples where home protection guidelines can be put to use.

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