Comment by altairprime

For an excellent alternate viewpoint that focuses on making homes stop burning in (and thus spreading) local wildfires and then letting them burn:

https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/

This is absolutely an acceptable path forward, and was proposed decades ago. It’s been essentially ignored in building codes and homeowner requirements, but if you own a home or know someone whose home is in a fire zone — which is any home between the Cascades and the coastline where there’s a contiguous (no gaps larger than a mile) line of homes and/or flammable unmanaged land eastward from the house to the nearest forest (i.e. all of Marin county) — then focusing on the home modifications described in this story may save that home, and perhaps all of those west of it, when fire visits them eventually.