Why aren’t homes in wildfire prone areas protected by a sprinkler system?

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Is there anything stopping me from an engineering standpoint installing a water tower on my property and making sprinklers around a radius of my home to drench the area in case of wildfire?

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Here’s a fun experiment: start a campfire and then start squirting water from a small water gun on it. It’s not going to make a difference. You’d need to dump a bucket of water on the fire to put it out. Now imagine flames the size of your house. How much water would you need to put it out?

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