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The California Board of Forestry and Fire Protection (BOF) approved regulations designed to protect homes from wildfires. The new rules are less stringent than what some had recommended.
The rules were mandated by a 2020 state law requiring residents in areas at high risk of wildfires to remove vegetation and other combustible materials from Zone Zero, the area within five feet of their dwellings. The BOF reduced the non-combustible zone from five feet to a minimum of one foot and allowed some plants and grass to remain in Zone Zero, provided that any plant limbs are trimmed away from the ground and roof.
Even Southern California residents whose neighborhoods burned in the Los Angeles wildfires early last year had objected to having to remove plants and trees within a few feet of their homes. But firefighters, industry executives and scientists warned that the weaker rules would only worsen the state’s climate-driven insurance crisis. (INSURANCE JOURNAL)
—Compiled by SNCJ Managing Editor KOREY CLARK
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