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Homebuilder unveils ‘fire-resilient’ neighborhood

Editorial Board Published March 27, 2025
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FOX Enterprise’ Max Gorden stories from Escondido, California, the state’s first wildfire-resilient neighborhood.

KB Residence on Thursday unveiled its first wildfire-resilient neighborhood in Southern California, marking one of many many options the homebuilding trade is engaged on to guard buildings and communities from the devastating results of pure disasters.

KB Residence, one of many largest homebuilders within the U.S., introduced that KB Residence’s Dixon Path neighborhood in Escondido is the primary within the nation that meets the home- and neighborhood-level wildfire resilience requirements developed by the impartial nonprofit analysis group Insurance coverage Institute for Enterprise & Residence Security. 

The neighborhood was constructed with fire-resistant supplies and is “designed to IBHS’s highest level of protection against direct flame contact, radiant heat and embers, which helps to meaningfully reduce the likelihood of wildfire spread,” the corporate mentioned.  

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KB Residence introduced that its Dixon Path neighborhood in Escondido, California, is the primary to satisfy home- and neighborhood-level wildfire resilience requirements. (KB Residence)

KB Residence mentioned it applied methods each in and across the houses to forestall wildfires “from becoming catastrophic.”

For example, the corporate has put in Class A hearth-rated roofs, noncombustible gutters, upgraded home windows and doorways, and ember- and flame-resistant vents for houses. It additionally created a 5-foot noncombustible buffer round buildings. 

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KB Residence put in Class A hearth-rated roofs, noncombustible gutters, upgraded home windows and doorways, and ember- and flame-resistant vents for houses. (KB Residence)

KB Residence additionally separated practically all of the buildings by greater than 10 toes and decreased the potential fuels by way of using fire-resistant supplies like all-metal fence techniques.

The neighborhood was constructed after a JPMorgan evaluation revealed that total financial losses and insured losses brought on by the lethal wildfires impacting Southern California are more likely to be the most expensive in state historical past.

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KB Residence separated practically all of the buildings by greater than 10 toes. (KB Residence)

JPMorgan’s insurance coverage analysts launched a report in January that seemed on the publicity of house owner and industrial property insurance coverage traces in gentle of the wildfires which have devastated communities within the Los Angeles space, together with Pacific Palisades and Altadena. A number of individuals have been killed and 1000’s of houses, companies and different buildings have been broken or destroyed.

The homebuilder additionally created a 5-foot noncombustible buffer round buildings. (KB Residence)

The analysts estimated that the overall influence could be worse than the 2018 Butte County Camp fires, which beforehand held the document for the very best insured loss wildfires in California’s historical past.

The 2018 Camp Hearth devastated the city of Paradise and a number of other close by communities and triggered 85 fatalities. It was brought on by a downed utility transmission line throughout a excessive wind occasion.

FOX Enterprise’ Eric Revell contributed to this report. 

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