Is Your Home Wildfire-Ready?
A plain checklist for getting a Sedona home ready for wildfire — tick what you've done and see what to do next, the highest-impact steps first, from the first five feet to the way out.
Getting a home ready for wildfire isn't one big project — it's a list of small ones, and they aren't all equal. Tick off what you've already done and this shows what's worth doing next, starting with the few things that protect a house the most.
Why this matters in Sedona
Sedona has two roads in and out, and they double as the evacuation route in a fire — the 2014 Slide Fire and fires since have closed SR-89A through Oak Creek Canyon outright. Insurers have been cancelling wildfire policies across the red rocks, and the official evacuation-zone meetings go half-empty. Most homes lost in a wildfire are lit by wind-blown embers landing in the first few feet or on the roof — not by a wall of flame — so a handful of concrete steps close to the house do the most.