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Most annual, biennial, and perennial flowers and many native plants have fire-resistant characteristics. Prioritize native, drought-tolerant, low-water-use plants for your firewise landscape. If using high-water-use plants, install and seasonally adjust a drip irrigation system for maximum water efficiency.

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The desert offers a surprisingly diverse selection of low-water-use landscape plants. Blending this distinctive palette of colors, forms, and textures allows you to create plant combinations to suit a...

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Survivable Space incorporates 3 management zones, each with different treatments.

Zone 2 - Moderate Fuel Reduction Zone (extends at least 100 feet from home and all attachments)
If this describes your home:

1. Maintain your trees:
• Prune under large trees to a height of 10 feet and remove any ladder fuels from under trees.
• Thin all trees and shrubs so their crowns (outermost branches of the canopy) are at least 10 feet apart.
• Dispose of pruned limbs, branches, and other woody debris.

2. Keep any woody or combustible debris outside of this zone (or at least 30 feet from home and attachments).

3. Propane tanks should be kept in this zone (outside of Zone 1, or at least 30 feet from home and attachments) with all vegetation at least 10 feet away.

BONUS TIPS:
1. Replacing or buffering native pines and junipers in this zone with broadleaf and/or deciduous trees will help keep flames on the ground and out of the trees.
2. Consider planting meadows of native, drought-tolerant, low-water-use grasses and wildflowers in this zone.
3. Use combinations of warm- and cool-season perennial grasses and annual and perennial wildflowers, and keep everything under 8 inches high (especially when dry or dormant).
4. Clear walkways or paths in this zone to break up vegetation and make it more difficult for fire to spread.

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Survivable Space incorporates 3 management zones, each with different treatments.

Zone 2 - Moderate Fuel Reduction Zone (extends at least 100 feet from home and all attachments)
If this describes your home:

1. Maintain your trees:
• Prune under large trees to a height of 10 feet and remove any ladder fuels from under trees.
• Thin all trees and shrubs so their crowns (outermost branches of the canopy) are at least 10 feet apart.
• Dispose of pruned limbs, branches, and other woody debris.

2. Keep any woody or combustible debris outside of this zone (or at least 30 feet from home and attachments).

3. Propane tanks should be kept in this zone (outside of Zone 1, or at least 30 feet from home and attachments) with all vegetation at least 10 feet away.

BONUS TIPS:
1. Replacing or buffering native pines and junipers in this zone with broadleaf and/or deciduous trees will help keep flames on the ground and out of the trees.
2. Consider planting meadows of native, drought-tolerant, low-water-use grasses and wildflowers in this zone.
3. Use combinations of warm- and cool-season perennial grasses and annual and perennial wildflowers, and keep everything under 8 inches high (especially when dry or dormant).
4. Clear walkways or paths in this zone to break up vegetation and make it more difficult for fire to spread. ... See MoreSee Less