Discover how to fortify your home against wildfires with cutting-edge, fire-resistant building materials and designs that ...

Creating defensible space and using hard-to-ignite building materials improve a home’s odds of surviving a conflagration, experts say.

Outer walls are fashioned from fiber cement that’s impervious to fire. The roof is protected by an ignition-proof membrane, with one section covered by vegetation in 4 inches of soil.