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WildfireArsenal
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For insurers and carriers

Defend your book from wildfire loss. 

WildfireArsenal helps insurers and MGAs by staging FireFoil and other wildfire response materials near exposed properties in high-risk areas, so protection isn't slowed down by procurement and access restrictions.

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WHY BUILD AN ARSENAL

Wildfire concentrates loss exposure.

You can raise rates or non-renew on high-risk properties, but this doesn't protect the book you've already written. A single event can take out much of a region's TIV. 


Pre-planned defense changes the loss math before the fire ever starts.

$22.4B

Insured wildfire claims paid in California in 2025, more than most reinsurance treaties were priced to carry.

80M

US properties with significant wildfire exposure, where terrain and access make the true cost of a fire hard to model.

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Pre-positioned barriers designed for rapid deployment that a carrier can call on to defend a covered home. Until now.

How it works

Standing mitigation assets, sized to your exposure.

Materials staged

The arsenal is anchored by FireFoil structure wrap. Other protective materials include, but not limited to, firefighting foam, structure-protection sprinklers, and portable water-supply and pump kits.

  1. 01

    Stage materials in wildfire country.

    Protective materials are staged in facilities positioned near covered properties across wildfire risk areas.

  2. 02

    Pair every site with a ready deployment plan.

    Each arsenal is matched to a plan that identifies which structures to defend and how crews reach them.

  3. 03

    Reach the properties that matter most.

    When a fire threatens, resources are already close enough to defend the buildings that stand a chance.

Evidence

2021 Caldor Fire

Over 69 days the fire burned across the Sierra Nevada and destroyed more than 1,000 structures. As the fire front passed, wrapped homes stood while neighboring houses burned. 

Pre-positioned Arsenals enable wider deployment quickly, lowering total loss.

"Just one property saved can pay for the entire arsenal."

Map showing the 2021 Caldor Fire burn perimeter near South Lake Tahoe, with structures lost concentrated around Grizzly Flats
2021 Caldor Fire, 69 days and more than 1,000 structures lost, including much of Grizzly Flats. Illustrative map of perimeter and structure-loss data from CAL FIRE.

Track Record

20 years of proof. Made in the USA.

FireFoil, the anchor material in every arsenal, is manufactured domestically to federal specification and has been adopted as standard structure-protection kit by federal wildland fire agencies. To learn more and read the research, go to firefoil.com.

Deployed by state and federal agencies for 20+ years
Domestically manufactured to federal specifications
Third-party fire-performance certified

Research

Peer-reviewed lab testing

Up to 96% radiant heat blocked

Controlled radiant-heat and flame-impingement testing of aluminized fire-blocking wraps measured up to 96% reduction in radiant heat and 92% reduction in convective heat reaching the protected surface, holding substrates below ignition through simulated wildland-urban interface exposure.

Takahashi, F. (2019). "Whole-House Fire Blanket Protection From Wildland-Urban Interface Fires," Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering.

PROVEN DEPLOYMENT RECORD

The standard for public wildfire response

State and federal wildland fire teams have used FireFoil aluminized shields for more than two decades to protect historic cabins, monuments, fire lookouts, bridges, communications infrastructure, and more.

In the news

Coverage of aluminum structure shielding.

National reporting on how federal agencies and homeowners have used aluminized wraps to defend structures, and irreplaceable landmarks from wildfire.

Base of a giant sequoia wrapped in reflective aluminum fire blanket
NPR
September 20, 2021

Here's why firefighters are wrapping sequoia trees in aluminum blankets

Intent on saving General Sherman and other high-priority trees, firefighters wrapped sequoias in aluminum-based blankets, sheathing the trees' bases from an intense wildfire.

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Small historic cabin fully wrapped in reflective aluminum fire shielding
TIME
September 22, 2021

Aluminum wrap used to protect California homes, trees from wildfires

Fire wrap is not widely used by homeowners in America, but the material has saved properties, including small historic houses and cabins, owned by federal agencies.

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Firefighter near an aluminum-wrapped cabin during a wildfire at night
CNBC
December 30, 2021

How an aluminum shield saved this couple's cabin from the wildfire

Used for years by the Forest Service, aluminum wrappings are finding a new market as structure protection for private homes and cabins in wildfire country.

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