IBC
There were a couple of "sole survivor" houses in burnt-out neighborhoods. I noticed that the owners left their lawn sprinklers running or set out garden hoses with sprinklers running before they left.
At one of the houses in Rock Creek, the grass fire reached the perimeter fence and stalled when the wind blew the panel down. It could have been stopped right there with a garden hose. Twenty minutes later, sparks from the burning cedar fence set shrubs and trees on fire in that yard, and it was all over. The house was fully engulfed in five minutes. That set off the two neighbors houses, and that whole block was lost.
I guess I will be tearing out all the bushes within 15 feet of the exterior walls.