GET WILDFIRE READY
One page. Every official tool your family needs to prepare your home, your loved ones, and your neighborhood before fire season arrives. Curated by the families behind the uniform.
Start Where The Embers Land
PREPARE YOUR HOME AND PROPERTY
Wildfire survival starts at the house and works outward. These official state tools take you from your first hour of preparation to a fully hardened home and defensible property.
Start With One Hour
You can meaningfully improve your home's wildfire readiness in a single hour. This state checklist walks you through the fastest, highest impact first steps.
1 Hour Ready ChecklistZone Zero: The First 5 Feet
The five feet closest to your walls decide whether embers ignite your home. Clear this zone first, and give your house a fighting chance.
Zone 0 ChecklistHarden Your Home
Ember resistant vents, clean gutters, and noncombustible materials, many upgrades cost far less than you think. Start with the low cost retrofits.
Low Cost Retrofit GuidePlan Before The Smoke
PREPARE YOUR FAMILY
Every household needs a written plan, a packed go bag, and a clear trigger to leave. Build yours with the state's own planning tools, then practice it until it's second nature.
Build Your Plan
The state's free firePLANNER tool builds a customized wildfire action plan for your household, step by step, in minutes.
Use firePLANNERPack Your Go Bag
One bag per person, staged every fire season. Use the federal supply kit checklist, then add what your family cannot leave without.
Go Bag ChecklistKnow When To Go
Leaving early is the single safest decision a family can make. Learn the evacuation guide, sign up for alerts, and never wait to see flames.
Evacuation GuidePrepared Neighborhoods Protect Each Other
PREPARE YOUR COMMUNITY
One hardened home helps. A whole street of them changes the outcome. These programs turn individual preparation into neighborhood wide protection, and they're the heart of our Home Front Ready program.
Firewise USA
A national recognition program that organizes residents, fire agencies, and local partners around a shared plan to reduce neighborhood wildfire risk.
Firewise USA ProgramCommunity Wildfire Protection Plans
Collaborative plans that map a community's risk and set its priorities, the foundation for grants, fuels projects, and coordinated protection.
CWPP ToolkitFire Safe Councils
Grassroots coalitions of neighbors and organizations working together on wildfire prevention. Find yours, or learn how communities start one.
California Fire Safe CouncilGo Deeper
MORE OFFICIAL RESOURCES
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