Buildings with high amounts of vegetation within five feet were destroyed in a wildfire 78% of the time, nearly twice as high as structures with small amounts of perimeter vegetation, according to the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS). This pattern was confirmed to hold true from distances ranging from 30-100 feet around a property.
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