FireSmart your yard to protect your home from a wildfire.

Follow four simple gardening practices to increase the odds of your home surviving a wildfire.

 (1)    Select fire-resistant plants and materials such as those identified here. Fire-resistant plants have:

• moist, supple leaves

• minimal accumulated dead vegetation

• water-like sap with little odour

• low amount of sap or resin material
  

(2)   Remove highly flammable plants and dry woody debris from your yard (especially within 10 metres of your house), including:

• plants with aromatic leaves or needles (pine, spruce, ground cedar and juniper)

• plants that accumulate fine, dry, dead material

• plants containing resin or oils

• plants with papery, flakey bark

• bark mulch (use gravel or crushed rock)

• dead and dry plants, leaves, needles and branches
  

(3)   Create a 1.5 metre non-flammable perimeter along the outer walls of your house.

(4)   Mow lawns to keep grass shorter than 10cm.