Fire-Resilient Design: Essential Strategies for Properties and Neighborhoods in Risk Zones

Fire-Resilient Design: Essential Strategies for Properties and Neighborhoods in Risk Zones

Wildfire encroachment into urban and suburban areas, known as the wildland-urban interface (WUI), poses one of the biggest challenges this decade for real estate developers, architects, designers, as well as property owners, managers, and residents of vulnerable communities. What once seemed a distant issue for many cities has become a pressing concern: the frequency and impact of wildfires rise yearly across Europe, the Americas, and Australia, putting thousands of homes and entire neighborhoods at risk each season.