November 2025

Make sure your contractors and landscapers review this handbook BEFORE working on your home. This SFPE & SFPE Foundation WUI Virtual Handbook for Fire Risk Assessment and Mitigation is an excellent resource for residents, contractors, landscapers, or anyone doing work on your home. It does an excellent job explaining, through photos, graphics, and easy-to-understand explanations, […]

The answer is YES, thanks to the CA Dept. of Insurance’s “Safer from Wildfire” regulation. Because wildfire mitigation discounts were not being widely offered voluntarily by insurers, the California Department of Insurance adopted a regulation in the fall of 2022 referred to as “Safer from Wildfire.” The regulation requires property insurers in California that offer