Whether you’re planning a commercial building or home, it’s important to consider the location and safety factors involved. For example, when building in a wildfire-prone area, you should include certain safety features in your building to prevent and mitigate the damage it could experience. Here are some tips for how to minimize the damage wildfires cause to your property.
When planning a building in a wildfire-prone area, it’s important to equip it with various fire protection measures inside and out. For example, choose fire-resistant building materials such as stone, concrete, brick, and treated wood. You should also install active protection features such as sprinkler systems, alarms, fire extinguishers, and more. Combine these with passive protection materials such as fire doors and windows to keep flames contained.
Fire protection technology applies to more than just a building’s interior. There are also exterior flame mitigation measures you can take to protect your property. For example, one effective way to prepare for wildfire season is to install intumescent coatings. These coatings have flame-resistant properties that cause them to react to heat and slow the spread of flames. Applying these coatings and other fire-resistant building materials to your building’s exterior can help reduce wildfire damage. Even something as simple as strategically spacing your building’s landscaping and vegetation can help reduce the spread of wildfires.
Another way to minimize the damage from wildfires is to design safety zones. These are areas of your property that don’t contain easily combustible materials like brush, vines, and other landscaping foliage. Wildfires can easily leap from brush to brush, so creating an area that is free of landscaping can provide a safe zone. Having safety zones is not only important for minimizing wildfire damage, but also for providing a safe area for your building’s occupants to evacuate to during an emergency. Keep brush away from your building and create safety zones at least 100 feet from the building for evacuation purposes.
Now that you know some of the best ways to mitigate wildfire damage on your future property, you can include these features and materials in your own building plans.
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