Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Watching a bit of coverage of the Cali Fires, Cnn had a reporter on a street that showed a house completely untouched, while the houses on both sides had been burned to the ground. On the other side of one of the destroyed houses was another house completely untouched. And this wasn't an anomaly. I saw another street where one side of the street houses were burned to the ground and on the other it was sporadic.


Makes me wonder what are they building these (million dollar) houses out of? It is a case of the 3 little pigs where some are built of straw and sticks (wood) and others built of bricks? Why are we building houses out of flammable materials? Just because they are cheaper?

And it looks like roofing materials are flammable on most houses. maybe that too is something they should rethink.

Just thinking out loud.
It would depend a lot on vegetation. If there was a stone fence. Most of the heat is due to radiation and that radiation adds up. So a fence can absorb a lot of the radiant heat .. or brick. As long as the brick doesn't get too hot to conduct enough heat to start a fire on things that touch it. If the grass was well mowed. It would also depend on how the building nearby burned.

People will be paying more and more attention to this.

I hear so much talk about reservoirs being empty but when a house burns down the pvc piping is going away and there would he infinite leaks causing a catastrophic failure in the water system. Or at least that is what I would think.