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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In Australia the main threat is from embers getting stuck in small spaces around the home – these embers can travel up to 40km in front of the fire front.
Some companies do make sprinklers that go on the roof – but simple tasks like cleaning gutters and filling in gaps offer a great deal of mitigation.
If the firefront does reach your property, you are looking at temperatures of up to 1100 C and 100 km/h – no sprinkler system is going to be of much help in that situation.
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