Wildfire Risk Walk
Ninety minutes on your property that changes how you see it.
Founded in fire science, and built for your exact parcel — your fire authority’s rules and your building codes. Not a checklist, and not a free drive-by. A CWD Advisor spends real time on your ground and answers the four questions every hazard-zone homeowner is asking: what’s going on, what’s changing, when does it land, and what do I do?
Why a CWD Risk Walk
Fire departments, fire safe councils, and community programs walk properties too, and those visits are worth taking. A CWD Risk Walk is built to go further — more time on your ground, and more behind every observation.
Founded in Fire Science
Every finding traces to the science of how homes actually ignite — not opinion, and not a generic checklist.
Built to Your Parcel
Your Fire Hazard Severity Zone, your fire authority’s rules, and your building codes. Not general guidance. Yours.
A Path to the Real Work
When you’re ready, we turn findings into a plan and bring contractor partners to deliver it — from understanding through finished work.
Understanding the Change, on Your Ground
New defensible space requirements. Zone 0 arriving in stages. Updated hazard maps, new enforcement, letters from insurers. The information is everywhere, and almost none of it is specific to you. Your Advisor arrives already knowing the two facts that govern everything — your Fire Hazard Severity Zone and your fire authority’s rules — then reads your property three ways.
In Force
Requirements that apply to your parcel today, and where your property stands against them.
Arriving
New requirements coming on a schedule, and the timeline that matters for you.
The Risk Itself
Rules are the floor, and fire doesn’t read them. How fire would reach your property, where it would take hold, and what’s worth addressing whether or not a rule requires it.
Together, that’s the difference between a list of everything you could do and a clear view of what comes first.
What the Walk Covers
The emphasis follows your property and your questions. Everything your Advisor finds is explained in person, in plain language, with reference materials to take with you.
- Zone 0 and the first five feet — where the newest requirements land
- Vegetation across Zones 0, 1, and 2 — walked zone by zone
- Vents and eaves — the standard hardening questions
- Decks and fences — attachments and the first five feet
- Roof — read from the ground
- Spacing and fuels — what the rules require, honestly
- Outbuildings — classified, with their clearances
- Access and edges — the property’s perimeter and approach
The Risk Walk Is the Front Door
The walk stands on its own. When you want to go further, everything builds on it — and the full picture lives one page over: every assessment, every plan, and a tool to build your own path.
The Report
Put the walk in writing: photos, your vulnerabilities, and the rules behind them. The record everything else builds on.
A Deep Dive
Defensible Space or Home Hardening — measured and thorough, to the standard an inspector would hold. Vents? Add the NFA calculation.
A Plan
Turn findings into a plan — materials, installation, and a contractor estimate, scoped to your code.
Act On It Your Way
Cost is part of every honest conversation about wildfire work, and the walk is often what turns an intimidating unknown into an ordered list.
Do It Yourself
Take your findings and work through them on your own schedule.
Use Your Own People
Hand the findings to a landscaper or contractor you already trust.
One Accountable Team
Your findings flow directly into estimates with our contractor partners — from understanding through completed work.
Walk It With an Advisor
Ninety minutes, on your ground, with a CWD Advisor. You’ll leave knowing where you stand and what comes first — and exactly how far you’d want to take it from there.