KB Home reveals the “Wildfire-RESILIIENT” 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, California, is the first in the country to meet the standards of flexibility in homes and vitality developed by the Institute for Insurance on the organization that is not preceded by business and home.

Society was built with Fireproof The company said, “The designer is the highest level of protection in IBHS against direct contact with the flame, radioactive heat and corridors, which helps reduce the possibility of wild fires.”

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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 also separated almost all of the structures with more than 10 feet and Lower fuel lowering 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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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.

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.