EXPLORING RESILIENCY

AND SUSTAINABILITY DESIGN

Wildfire Adaption Principles

Regional Scale 

1.     Actively manage the forest

2.     Create firebreaks

3.     Harden infrastructure (electrical, water, sewer, storm)

4.     Create redundant emergency notification systems

5.     Provide multiple ingress and egress routes and a regional emergency evacuation plan 

Community Scale

6.     Prohibit dead-end streets

7.     Foster neighborhood fuel reduction and places of refuge

Home Scale

8.     Codify defensible space

9.     Require fire-resistant building shells

10.Encourage aggressive code enforcement