KB Home unveils ‘wildfire-resilient’ neighborhood in Southern California

On Thursday, KB Home revealed its first neighborhood for the wilderness in southern California, which represents one of the many solutions that the home building industry is working to protect structures and societies from the devastating effects of natural disasters.

KB Home, one of the largest home construction in the United States, has announced that the Dixon Trail community in KB Home in Escondido is the first in the country to meet the standards of fire flexibility in homes and vitality developed by the Independent Insurance Institute for the Non -profit research and home safety institution.

The company said that the community was designed with fire -resistant materials and is “designed at the highest level of IBHS against direct contact with the flame, radioactive and flexible heat, which helps reduce the possibility of forest fires.”

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KB Home announced that the Dixon Trail community in Escondido, California, is the first to meet the standards of flexibility of wildfire at the home level and the neighborhood. (KB Home)

KB Home said he carried out strategies in homes and around them to prevent forest fires “from becoming disastrous.”

For example, the company installed the first -class surfaces, non -combustible barriers, windows and doors that were promoted, and flame -resistant holes for homes. It also created a non -combustible buffer 5 feet around the structures.

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KB Home The classified surfaces are installed from the heat, the non -combustible guns, windows and developed doors, fuel -resistant openings and flames for homes. (KB Home)

KB Home also separated almost all of the structures with more than 10 feet and reduced potential fuel by using fire -resistant materials such as metal fence systems.

Society was built after JPMorgan analysis is that the total economic losses and secure losses resulting from Fetnati fires The influence on southern California is likely to be the most expensive in the history of the state.

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The KB house is almost separated by all the structures with more than 10 feet. (KB Home)

JPMorgan insurance analysts issued a report in January, looking at the exposure of homeowners and commercial property insurance lines in light of the forest fires that were destroyed in societies in Los Angeles The region, including Pacific Palisades and Altadena. Many people were killed and thousands of homes, companies and other structures were destroyed.

HomeBoilder also created a 5 -foot -long buffer around the structures. (KB Home)

Analysts have estimated that the total effect will be worse than the fires of the Bouti County 2018 camp, which has already the record for the highest losses of losses in the history of California.

The CAMP 2018 fire destroyed the city of Paradise and many nearby societies and caused 85 deaths. It was caused by the transfer line that was dropped during the event of the strong winds.

Eric Rafeel in Fox Business contributed to this report.