-Maintain your roof and gutters by regularly removing all debris, including leaves and pine needles.

-Replace a wood shake or wood shingle roof with a Class A fire-resistant-rated roof cover. Class A-rated roof covers include most asphalt shingles, tile, slate, and metal roofs.

-Replace domed, plastic skylights with flat, multipaned, tempered glass skylights.

-Replace plastic gutters with metal gutters such as aluminum.

-Replace combustible siding including wood, wood-fiber, or vinyl siding with a noncombustible material like concrete-fiber board, stucco, brick, or stone veneer.

-Install ember-resistant vents or cover existing vents with 1/8-inch metal wire mesh.

-Ensure your metal dryer vent has a louver or flap to reduce ember entry. Due to its design and function, wire mesh should not be used on dryer vents.

-BrandGuard Vents are designed to keep embers out and prevent fires from destroying your home.

-Maintain your deck by regularly clearing vegetative debris.

-Remove combustible furniture, including wood or plastic furniture.

-Remove large combustible rugs and planters.

-Choose noncombustible furniture such as cast aluminum or metal furniture.

-Ensure any items like cushions or door mats are small enough to easily be moved inside on Red Flag days.

-Ensure there is a minimum of 6 vertical inches (measured from the ground up and from any attached horizontal surface like a deck) of noncombustible siding material, such as fiber-cement, brick, stone, stucco, or exposed concrete foundation.

-Remove anything stored under the deck or stairs.

-Remove all vegetation—including grass or weeds—from under the deck and stairs.

-All deck framing components including ledger, joists, beams, posts, stairs and brackets should be made of noncombustible materials such as steel.

-Fortress Building Products Evolution Steel Frame has a Class-A Fire Rating. This deck frame system is a noncombustible material that’s resistant to fire and meets the requirements for use in all Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) zones.

Windows

Replace all exterior windows with tempered, multipaned glass or fire-resistant glass blocks.

Doors

Upgrade to solid exterior doors that have a metal threshold and are constructed with a noncombustible or ignition-resistant material such as metal, fiberglass or solid hardwood.

If you choose a door that includes glass, make sure it is made with tempered, multipaned glass.

Alternatively, install a noncombustible storm door as the outermost door.

Provide proper address identification

Choose numbers that are 4 inches on a contrasting background and/or reflective or illuminated.

Place address numbers so that they are visible from the street and from both directions of travel.

Improve access

Create a driveway clearance of at least 12 feet wide and 13.5 feet tall.

If the property is gated, gates should open inward and be placed at least 30 feet from the roadway.