No question.The only sure things in life are death and taxes. But those pics sure are good advertising as far as I’m concerned.
Im also pretty sure I read somewhere that firefighters are more likely to defend properties that have a chance of being saved?
There is a triage process. If it's possible to get out ahead of the fire front, firefighters will go through communities to assess properties that are safe to defend, and which properties are a write off.
Most states have a standard of 100 ft of bare mineral soil around all structures on a property with limbed up trees to prevent ground fires from spreading into what's called a "crown fire" in the tree tops or vice versa. Once it becomes a crown fire, it becomes impossible to control.
If you live in an urban interface area or a wildland area, if you haven't done your brush clearance (hazard reduction), firefighters will most likely write your property off as unsafe for them to defend.
You'd be surprised how many property owners are non-compliant when it comes to hazard reduction. Which then leads to huge potential liabilities for the property owner. If you have a structure fire that spreads into the wildland area because you have not completed your brush clearance or hazard reduction, will CalFire or the Forest Service come after you for cost recovery for fire suppression? Maybe so, depending on circumstances.
Like I said previous, I could talk your ear off on these subjects. I have a lot of opinions. And you know what they say about opinions........