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Utah Living With Fire
- A Guide for the Homeowner
Take action to improve the survivability of your home before a wildfire occurs. Pre-fire activities include proper vegetation management and the use of fire resistant building materials. The UtahFireInfo.gov "Living with Fire" site provides tips on how to increase the chances of your home surviving a wildfire.

Introduction
Fire Environment
Examples of Local Fire Behavior
FAQs about Defensible Space
Creating an Effective Defensible Space
Firescape: Fire Safe Landscape Design
Other considerations in Making Your Home Defensible
When Wildfire Approaches

- FIRESCAPE: FIRE SAFE LANDSCAPE DESIGN -

Firescaping is a type of landscape design that reduces a home's vulnerability to wildfire.

There are no fuels close to this home, protecting it from wildfire, therefore making this home defensible.

By trimming the lower branches of the trees near your home, fire burning along the ground is less likely to jump into trees.

Proper plant selection, placement, and maintenance can diminish the possibility of ignition, lower fire intensity, and reduce how quickly a fire can spread.

Remember, no plant is fireproof. All will burn in a very intense fire. Firewise plants all have one or more of these firewise characteristics:

Tissues contain more moisture.
Tissues contain low amounts of volatile oils.
They provide less fuel for fire by staying small or producing less littler.
They are compact or low to the ground.

Below are some examples of fire resistant plants that are adapted to Utah's climate. CLICK HERE for a complete list of Firewise Plants for Utah landscape.

Rye Grass	Maple tree	Birch tree	Red-hot Poker
Blue Fescue	Lilac	Rock-rose	Alum Root
Flax	Virginia Creeper	Geranium	hardy Ice Plant
Poppy	Honeysuckle	Daylily	Columbine
Pinks	English Ivy	Shasta Daisy	Western Wheatgrass
Lavender	Iris	Silvery yarrow	Buffalograss

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