The most important things you can do to protect your home against wildfires

The most important things you can do to protect your home against wildfires

The names are ominously familiar: Camp. CZU Lightning. Caldor. And more recently, Palisades. Between 2018 and 2023, more than 41,000 structures in California were destroyed and 152 lives were lost in wildfires. What can you do to improve your chances? Kate Wilkin is an assistant professor of fire ecology at San Jose State University. This summer, she and her colleagues published a study of 176 homes in the Lake Tahoe area and Santa Cruz Mountain…