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Insurance industry‑funded research group urges home‑ and neighborhood‑level mitigation to curb conflagration risk
Summary
A science‑based program of home hardening and neighborhood mitigation can reduce the ignitions that cause destructive conflagrations, IBHS told Coconino County supervisors on Tuesday, and third‑party verification helps insurers assess risk.
The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) told Coconino County supervisors Tuesday that scientific research supports a system of building‑ and landscape‑level measures to reduce home ignitions during wildfires — actions county leaders said are central to addressing a rising insurance crisis affecting Western communities.
IBHS general counsel Michael Newman reviewed laboratory and field research that examines ember storms, flame spread and the neighborhood dynamics that produce conflagrations. “When wildfires enter into a community and start attacking structures, all three ignition mechanisms are happening,” Newman said, describing embers, flame contact and radiant heat. He said…
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