About firescaping
- Your home can survive a wildfire
- What is firescaping?
- Defensive space
- Defensible Space- Zones 0, 1 & 2 | CA Board of Forestry
- BFD's precise landscaping regulations pre-EMBER
- The evidence for Zone 0 defensible space requirements
Creating defensible space
- Gravel: an Introduction to Your Options
- Rock mulching for Zone 0: a quick and easy guide
- Councilmember Brent Blackaby's progress towards Zone 0 compliance
- Developing defensible space in a small yard on the Ridge
- Newly landscaped, defensible-space-compliant home on a legacy lot
- A wildfire-fortified, defensible-space-compliant home in Codornices Canyon
- Defensible-space-compliant modern home with redwood grove
- A Zone-0-compliant home landscaped with all-native plants
- A good looking wildfire-adapted landscaped home in Auburn, CA
- EMBER: my actual costs of doing Zone 0
- (almost) Zone 0: a fountain project
Remove dangerous fuels and choose fire-smart plants
- "Fire-resistant" plants do not exist
- Fire-hazardous plants: remove this Dirty Dozen
- Fire hazardous plants: avoid using these dangerous plants
- Selecting the right plants for firescaping
- These lovely perennials bloom and die before fire season
- Ignitability: ad hoc data from Las Pilitas Nursery, with a caveat
Fences, gates and hedges
- Gates and fences Day '26: introduction to Berkeley rules and metal fence options
- Replacing two wood gates with wrought iron: a $1,100 contractor project
- Replacing two wood gates with metal: an $800 contractor project
- Replacing a wood gate: a $400 DIY project
- Reusing fences, gates, and other architectural recycling for Zone 0 at Urban Ore
- Why should I use noncombustible materials for attached fences in zone 0?
- How dangerous is a combustible fence more than 5 feet from my house?
Firescaping resources
- Using Berkeley resources to firescape your yard efficiently
- Need to replace combustible edging? Look at Cor-Ten steel
- Adding vegetation in zone 0 with the fire department's blessing 😉
- Wood mulch: an ideal propagation bed for a wildfire
- Landscaping for fire on a steep slope
- Coast Live Oaks: the only protected tree in Berkeley
- The incomparable FireSafeMarin.org