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 .
Helping Angelenos navigate the expanding urban fire zones.
“These are fires driven by buildings.
They’re not necessarily driven by vegetation.”
New Research: The 2025 Los Angeles Fires
A groundbreaking study of the Eaton and Palisades Fires found that once fire enters an urban community, it’s no longer a wildfire. It’s homes burning homes. Urban form, structure density, and neighborhood characteristics were stronger predictors of destruction than vegetation cover alone.
Safer Gardens
Landscapes that support fire safety, habitat, shade, privacy, cooling.
Understand how urban fires behave, what the science shows, and why homes - not plants - drive loss in the urban environment.
Urban Fire 101
Safer Cities
Explore how land use, density, and public policy shape fire risk in Los Angeles.
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Safer Cities? The Public Safety Implications of Urban Density
Video | LAFD Chief Jaime Moore
You can’t ignore the math. More people, more congestion, and the same street network can mean longer emergency response times. Los Angeles Fire Department (LAFD) Chief Jaime Moore discusses the public safety implications of increasing urban density.
What Zone 0 Influencers Say About the Problem with Zone 0 in Private
Emails (May 2025) between a California Board of Forestry Zone 0 Committee member, Berkeley Fire Department Assistant Chief Dave Winnacker and a Cal Poly fire institute director — both active in the Zone 0 marketplace — offers a rare look inside the policymaking process that is reshaping wildfire regulations in our yards. Read More
Do Zone 0 Homes Really Fare Better?
Reality-testing wildfire policy, media narratives, and official claims. An LA Times article draws on recent insurance industry claims that homes with a cleared “Zone 0” were less likely to burn in the Eaton and Palisades fires—and suggests this supports California’s proposed Zone 0 mandate. Let’s pause and reality-test that claim. Read More →
“State Parks Provided Kindling” — A Claim In Search of Proof.
The headline in this article from Circling the News, “State Parks Provided Kindling for the January 7 Fire” makes a definitive accusation. The problem is simple: The article never proves it. It substitutes proximity, insinuation, and tone for evidence — and that matters, because it shifts blame from decision-making failures to conservation staff without meeting even a basic factual standard. Read More →