![]() ![]() The intensity of wildfire fuel management varies within the 100-foot perimeter of the home, with more intense fuels’ reduction occurring closer to your home. This law requires the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to develop the regulation for a new ember-resistant zone (Zone 0) within 0 to 5 feet of the home by January 1, 2023. Assembly Bill 3074, passed into law in 2020, requires a third zone for defensible space. Zones 1 and 2 currently make up the 100 feet of defensible space required by law. Proper defensible space also provides firefighters a safe area to work in, to defend your home. ![]() This space is needed to slow or stop the spread of wildfire and it helps protect your home from catching fire-either from embers, direct flame contact or radiant heat. Defensible space is the buffer you create between a building on your property and the grass, trees, shrubs, or any wildland area that surround it. So far, the number of hotspots in 2023 has already exceeded that of last year.DEFENSIBLE SPACE Keep your property lean and green to help protect your family and home.ĭefensible space, coupled with home hardening, is essential to improve your home’s chance of surviving a wildfire. ![]() Scientists predict that this year’s season of forest fires – and arson – will be even more intense due to the El Niño weather cycle, the sporadic climate pattern that increases global temperatures every three to seven years. Rondônia state once had 208,000 sq km of forest (51.4m acres), an area nearly the size of Romania, but over the past three decades has lost an estimated 68,000 sq km of rainforest. In collaboration with a federal agency, the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), the Paiter Suruí community in Rondônia state established the country’s third Indigenous brigade to tackle blazes during the fire season, which typically lasts from July to November. ![]() These Indigenous communities feel they are ultimately responsible for safeguarding the forest. The Paiter Suruí people have created an all-Indigenous forest firefighting brigade with the Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama), the third in Brazil ![]()
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