For years, wildfire-resilient home and neighborhood design has been a niche consideration for many California homeowners. January’s Los Angeles firestorms have made it feel more like an urgent necessity.
Dont worry. Most of those will burn down, leaving plenty of room for houses to be built to the new requirements.
Best case is enough houses get built to this standard and intermixed into those neighborhoods to give a type of “herd immunity” from fires moving house to house. Hell, even a good bulwark of these in a line facing the forest might do it.
Now all they have to do is re-construct the last 250 years worth of construction to the new standards. Easy!
Dont worry. Most of those will burn down, leaving plenty of room for houses to be built to the new requirements.
Best case is enough houses get built to this standard and intermixed into those neighborhoods to give a type of “herd immunity” from fires moving house to house. Hell, even a good bulwark of these in a line facing the forest might do it.
That sounds suspiciously like vaccine herd immunity; be careful or the Department of Health & Human Services will come for you…