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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The reason it isn’t generally done for residential buildings is that it isn’t the most cost-effective way to protect a building.
Things like a green zone, fire-resistant cladding, and firebreaks are cheaper and more effective. The general idea is that a fire won’t go where it doesn’t have fuel, so you take away the fuel in the area around your home. That makes the fire pass right around you.
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