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We've created this page to help facilitate community-wide home hardening and fire prevention projects. So, if you are looking for ways to help protect your whole neighborhood from wildfires, this is a great place to start.
Creating a wildfire-prepared home is easier than you think. It takes just a few basic steps, some Wildfire Defense Mesh, and a few common garden tools.
Mow the lawn and clean out the gutters regularly, and create a 5-foot barrier of defensible space free of combustible debris, including:
Create a community mesh program to help protect all the houses in your neighborhood with Wildfire Defense Mesh. It's a simple product used to cover vents and crawl spaces, and to wrap decks and perimeter fences.
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Get your neighbors involved! This is essential for creating community-wide protection, as the effectiveness of these measures increases exponentially with each home that takes them.
Wildfire Defense Mesh is surprisingly affordable, especially when cutting it out from large rolls to install on multiple houses in a neighborhood.
There may be funding assistance available to those in fire-prone locations. Check with your local fire authorities about what's available in your area.
Watch this short video to see how it all works, and how you and your neighbors can work together to help protect everyone on the block from wildfire devastation.
To help you plan a neighborhood-wide mesh screening program, we've created an online system where you can register your neighborhood and collect all the information needed about the houses involved. There's also an estimator tool to help you determine how much mesh you and your neighbors will need based on the number and sizes of screens there are.
Start planning your neighborhood-wide mesh project by joining our Wildfire Defense Community Group. Click the button below and complete the information to register your neighborhood. You can edit the information at any time, so just start with yourself as the project leader (this can also be edited later if roles change) and the neighbors that you know want to participate.
As soon as you have registered, you will receive a welcome email with additional information for how to coordinate your project, connect with other neighborhood groups on the same path to home hardening, and share stories, pictures, tips and high-fives.
Once you have joined the group, count and measure all the spaces needing mesh:
- Attic and foundation vents, gutters
- Birdstops, weepholes, and crawlspaces
- Deck skirting and perimeter fencing
Need help? Check out the videos below for instruction.
Now that you've counted and measured all the ember-entry points, enter that information into the estimator form on your community group page and it will calculate a reasonable estimate for how many rolls and sizes of mesh are needed to complete the community mesh screening project.
Installation is simple, and we have great instructional videos below for you DIY-ers.
If you would rather hire a professional, you can contact us here to request information on local installation experts in your area.
Mono City, CA
This Community Page and Estimator is exactly what we need! We (3 Firewise Community Coordinators) just met to discuss how to educate our community on installing mesh (not that we three have experience). We planned to send the links to your very helpful videos, but the Community Page sounds even more useful. We will definitely distribute the information to our community. Congratulations on this, and thanks from all of us!
- Members of the Mono City Firewise Community & the Mono Basin Fire Safe Council
Richmond, CA
The Community Program info is absolutely awesome! Well-phrased facts about community buy-in, not just single home installation. You could not have made it easier to understand everything - measuring the vents, deciding between a DIY job or needing a contractor, etc. and the videos are fantastic! Thank you for remembering me and sharing this!
-Joyce F.
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Once you have joined the WDM Community Group, you can use this estimator tool to help your community leader(s) determine how much mesh is needed for your community-wide mesh project.
Enter a Title of either Resident, Project Leader, or Other. For the Community field, you should see the community name you used when you joined the WDM community group.
