This tutorial contains a lot of extremely important information. Please bookmark it so you can return if you have to go before you finish.

Living adjacent to a wildland area offers spectacular scenery and feelings of serenity. Unfortunately, homes built in the Wildland/Urban Interface Zone (the “WUI”, or “I-Zone”) are extremely vulnerable to wildfires. A simple definition of an I-Zone is “Any area where structures (whether residential, industrial, recreational or agricultural) are located adjacent to or among combustible wildland fuels”. If you live within a few miles of undeveloped wildland, you are living in an I-Zone.

This can vary from a cabin in the woods of Idaho to an urban home in a developed neighborhood in New Mexico, Florida or New Jersey. In 2008, thousands of homes burned in Southern California that were miles from the original wildland fire.
 

This tutorial contains a lot of extremely important information. Please bookmark it so you can return if you have to go before you finish.

Living adjacent to a wildland area offers spectacular scenery and feelings of serenity. Unfortunately, homes built in the Wildland/Urban Interface Zone (the “WUI”, or “I-Zone”) are extremely vulnerable to wildfires. A simple definition of an I-Zone is “Any area where structures (whether residential, industrial, recreational or agricultural) are located adjacent to or among combustible wildland fuels”. If you live within a few miles of undeveloped wildland, you are living in an I-Zone.

This can vary from a cabin in the woods of Idaho to an urban home in a developed neighborhood in New Mexico, Florida or New Jersey. In 2008, thousands of homes burned in Southern California that were miles from the original wildland fire.