In Southern California, living with wildfire risk is par of our day to day. There Thoughtful plant choices around your home can improve resilience while still creating a green and inviting landscape. With home hardening and defensible space on the rise, we want to offer some reasources that shows designing a defensible space doesn’t mean giving up beauty. Many California Native plants have gorgeous colors and are naturall resistent to embers. Strategic spacing, pruning, and proper irrigation further reduce fire risk.

Planting with wildfire resilience in mind protects not only your property, but also your neighbors and community. By adopting fire-smart practices, backyard conservation becomes part of a shared defense, allowing us to have native ecosystem and gorgeous plants without risking our wildfire safety. 

We first have this website from Cal Fire Describing Wildfire Landscaping best practices and helping inform on some of its principles: 

Here is a list of common wildfire reslient plants from the Rivers and Lands conservency in california: