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So - looking at The Palisades Fire - everything that is made of concrete/brick or stone is standing, everything else is gone. Is there any amount of fire damage that will convince the US residential construction companies to finish reading The Three Little Piggies book, when they have obviously stopped at the house of the second piggy?
Even just wood-frame with the exposed bits clad in non-combustibles gets you most of the way there, provided your house is not literally in the middle of untouched forest. (which is a difficult position, in the worst-case scenario, and really needs firebreaks)
Steel/clay/concrete roof is priority #1, and stucco (or similar) siding helps some too -- we struggle to implement these in Canada for labour cost/expertise and style reasons, but I don't really see how either of these are an obstacle in California? (Earthquake-proof concrete OTOH gets pretty expensive I think?)
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