Score your yard before a wildfire tests it.
Answer some questions about the area around your house to one-hundred feet out.
Get a 0 to 100 score and a detailed report of strengths, gaps, and recommended next steps to improve your preparedness.
How it works
Three steps, about five minutes
No inspection, no visit, no account. The same answers give the same number every time, because the score is calculated from what you told us and nothing else.
Answer the questions
Fourteen questions about the ground around your house, in plain language.
Get your score
A number from 5 to 100, a declared range around it, and the evidence tier behind it.
Work the list
Your next actions, ordered by fastest protection per dollar rather than by size.
What we look at
The fourteen things, in detail
These are the defensible space measures we ask about, grouped by how far they sit from the house. Open any one for what we will ask, what to look for, how it is judged, and where it sits in the calculation.
Zone 0, the first five feet
Combustible material cleared from the first five feet
- What it is.
- The strip of ground running five feet out from every exterior wall, kept free of anything that burns.
- Why it matters.
- Embers land and collect right against the wall. Whatever is sitting there is what carries flame to the siding.
- What good looks like.
- Bare soil, gravel or paving for a full stride out, with no bark mulch, dry leaves, plants or stored items in the band.
- How it is judged.
- Answered on a scale of 3 graded options, plus "Not sure", which is left out of the calculation entirely and will not lower your score. It sits in zone 0, the first five feet, carried with equal weight alongside the other measures there. It is also a gate, so it can hold the label back until it is met, and it never subtracts points. Referenced to 10 CCR 2644.9(d)(1)(B)1.b.
- What we will ask you.
- In the five feet closest to the house, is it clear of anything that burns?
Companion tools
Your yard is only part of the picture.
Defensible space covers the ground around the building, the vegetation and fuel that carry fire toward the structure. Home hardening covers the building itself: the roof, the eaves, the vents, the windows, the walls. Both matter. The evidence is emphatic that clearing the ground does less than it should if embers can still get into an open eave or an unscreened vent, which is why we ask about the first five feet here. For the building, use the Home Hardening Score.
Score how hardened your home is against wildfire, and get a clear list of what to fix next.
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Get your defensible space score and the ranked list of work that protects your property fastest.