[rktman]

Houses can be constructed to withstand these firestorms. Clear spaces with no combustibles within a certain distance. The roof in our current house is concrete tile. Yet, there are still a lot of homes in the Reno area with cedar shingle roofs. Hello..................

[Pelham]

This is the Bui/Bender house that survived the 1993 Laguna Beach firestorm when every other house in the neighborhood burned to the ground:

How and why it survived can be found in this article:

https://www.finehomebuilding.com/1995/06/01/fire-resistant-details