Building Smarter: Materials That Work in the Mountains — and the Learning Curve That Comes With Them
Natural Builders | Wildfire Resiliency Series, Part 3 The first two posts in this series covered the science of how wildfires spread and what that means practically for Summit County homeowners. This one is about what you can actually build with — the materials that are reshaping exterior construction in the wildland-urban interface, how they […]
What Summit County Homeowners Need to Know Right Now About Wildfire Risk
Natural Builders | Wildfire Resiliency Series, Part 2 In the first post in this series, we covered the science of how wildfires actually spread — and why most homes in the wildland-urban interface are more vulnerable than their owners realize. If you haven’t read it, the short version is this: it’s rarely the flames that […]
Why Your Home Is More Vulnerable to Wildfire Than You Think — And What Colorado Is Doing About It
Natural Builders | Wildfire Resiliency Series, Part 1 If you’ve spent any real time in Summit County, you know fire season is not an abstraction. The dry air, the steep terrain, the dense stands of lodgepole pine — it’s a landscape that doesn’t need much convincing to burn. What most people don’t know is that […]