Helping Angelenos navigate our expanding urban fire zones

Safer Gardens

Protect homes ~ Protect habitat ~Tell the truth

City yards are not forests.

We’ve been told that clearing plants from around our homes will save them from burning. We’ve been told that treating our yards like timberlands equals safety.

It doesn’t.

Not in the fires we actually experience. Not in the neighborhoods that actually burn.

Because once fire enters an urban community, it’s no longer a wildfire.

It’s homes burning homes.

And yet, policy continues to focus on our living plants.

This is where wildfire science, policy, and industry narratives get pulled apart—using evidence, not slogans. Start Here‍

Los Angeles Homeowner & Resident Organizations Reject Proposed Zone 0 Regulation

Urge the Board of Forestry to adopt science-based, locally informed fire-safety policy that reflects urban fire risk .

Read the joint letter