It’s never too early to prepare for wildfires
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2 min readMay 4, 2022
Saturday, May 7 is National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day.
With wildfire season already underway, it’s not too early to get ready. Consider these tips to get started:
- Work with your insurance agent or company to review your insurance coverage. Do you have the right coverage and enough to rebuild?
- If you’re renting, consider buying renters insurance to protect your personal belongings. Many policies cost around $15 a month.
- Create a home inventory. Take photos or videos of your belongings in each room of your home. Store the inventory in the cloud or in a location away from your home.
- Make copies of important identifying and financial documents, including identification and Social Security cards, titles, insurance policy information, tax records, and pet records.
- Build an emergency kit.
Preparing the outside of your home and creating defensible space is important before wildfire season hits. There are many actions you can take to protect your home from being a total loss including:
- Clean out gutters
- Rake and remove pine needles and dry leaves to a minimum of three to five feet from your home’s foundation
- Sweep porches and decks
- Prune low-hanging tree branches to a height of four feet from the ground
- Add screens to your home’s vents to keep embers from entering
Learn more about wildfire insurance and disaster preparedness today.