Icicles and ice dams are caused when water freezes along gutters or downspouts from a mixture of temperature fluctuation and heat from your home. Heat rising through your roof melts accumulated snow ...

Creating defensible space and using hard-to-ignite building materials improve a home’s odds of surviving a conflagration, ...

Much of the proposed tax breaks involve taking steps to prevent damage from future fires, floods and other catastrophic ...

"When those drips of snow move down and meet the cold air along the eaves of your roof, they form a dam of ice," Century Home Improvement said. "As snow continues to melt, those drips are added to ...

Your roof isn’t just a collection of shingles trimmed out with flashing and fascia board. It’s an interconnected system where ...

Susan and Winston Salser, both in their 80s, refused to evacuate from their Pacific Palisades home despite being surrounded ...

Representative Kevin Kiley (R-CA) has re-introduced the Supporting Affordable Fire Emergency Hardening through Optimized Mitigation Efforts (SAFE HOME) Act. He introduced the bill once before in ...

It lists roof coverings, sheathing, flashing, roof and attic vents, eaves, or gutters that “conform to ignition-resistant construction standards.” Also mentioned are “wall components for ...