FEMA Homes Closer than 30 ft Must Mitigate to Stop Structure to Structure Ignition
IBC3 Stand Alone Construction Saves Lives
5/8 INCH FIRE-RATED SHEETROCK-LINED EXTERIOR SIDING TO MITIGATE STRUCTURE-TO-STRUCTURE IGNITION
FEMA Homes Closer than 30 ft Must Mitigate to Stop Structure to Structure Ignition
5/8 INCH FIRE-RATED SHEETROCK-LINED EXTERIOR SIDING TO MITIGATE STRUCTURE-TO-STRUCTURE IGNITION
NIST. NOTES Timeline to Stand Alone Building Technologies
OCTOBER 2007 NIST.TN. 1018-5
AUGUST 2008 NIST.TN 1600
DECEMBER 2012 NIST. and Forest Service Create World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
DECEMBER 2012 NIST. Forest Service Propose System to Help Communities Review Address Resist Wildfires.
JANUARY 2013 NIST.TN 1748
NOVEMBER 2015 NIST.TN. 1910
JANUARY 2017 TO JANUARY 2021 Joint Fire Science Program, NIST, US Foerst Service partnership and science exchange with managers Federal Network canceled. Tax paid stand alone building codes to protect Ameracan homes delayed until March March 2022. When the new science partnership with NIST and the state of California completed Phase 1 HAZARD MITIGATING METHODOLIGY now California law. PHASE 2 Home Fire testing FOR NIST. CITATION IN JEOPARDY by DOGE.
Trumps canceling the JFSP , NIST, US Forest Service effects every single family home in America a full size test with citation by NIST IBC 3 will no longer be a theoretical building code. But the proven effective stand alone building code to protect high density low sepertion distance communities in wildfire threatened states.
MAY 2021 NIST.TN. 2161
MARCH 2022 NIST.TN. 2205
JULY 2023 NIST.TN. 2252
AUGUST 2023 NIST.TN. 2262
The structures destroyed by WUI fires have devastated entire communities and have cost billions of dollars. As structure losses continue to increase, there is a growing need for a comprehensive hazard assessment and mitigation methodology to harden appropriate structures and parcels effectively and efficiently against ember and fire exposures. To address this need, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), and the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) embarked on a sixteen-month collaborative effort, culminating in this Hazard Mitigation Methodology (HMM).
This HMM has outlined a detailed structure hardening strategy to resist ignitions from ember exposures. The 40 identified structure ignition vulnerabilities illustrate how detailed structure hardening must be for a structure to stand alone.
NIST and IBHS are non-regulatory entities, while CAL FIRE has regulatory authority in the state of California. Regulatory agencies and homeowners will choose where to implement any or all of the components presented in the HMM.
NIST Technical Note 2161 May 2021 Structure Separation Experiments Phase 1 Preliminary Test Plan.
The primary objective of this project is to assess structure-to-structure fire spread for structures located in the Wildland-Urban Interface Full-scale fire experiments will be conducted in which various types of structures The spacing between the source and target structures will be varied to identify safe structure separation distance (SSD).
Experiments will be conducted at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the National Fire Research Laboratory (NFRL),and the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS).
The destruction of homes at the interface is the very limited coupling between building codes and standards and potential fire and ember exposure. The limited exposure information currently available does not address the full range of realistic WUI exposures and offers little context for the design of ignition resistant landscapes and buildings. While the principles of ignition and fire spread at the WUI have been known, actual exposure quantification has been very limited. The resulting gap between exposure and structure ignition has therefore resulted in a lack of tested and implementable hazard mitigation solutions. As an example, there is currently little quantifiable information that links the ember generation from wildland fuels to building assemblies testing. The proposed WUI-scale can be used to explicitly identify WUI areas that have a fire problem, as opposed to areas that meet housing density or wildland vegetation requirements as is frequently done.
December 05, 2012 NIST and Forest Service Create World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—Two federal agencies have teamed to create the first-ever system for linking accurate assessments of risk from wildland fires to improved building codes, standards and practices that will help communities better resist the threat. The proposed Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Hazard Scale addresses fires that occur where developed and undeveloped areas meet, and is described in a report released today by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
NIST Technical Note 1600 August 2008 Residential Structure Separation Fire Experiments In a recent full-scale laboratory experiment at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), it took less than 80 s for flames from a simulated house with combustible exterior walls to ignite a similar “house” 1.8 m (6 ft) away. In another experiment, involving the same type of structures, the flames from one simulated house again reached the second, but this time a gypsum barrier protected the simulated home from sustained ignition.
The 94 % Urban 6.5 million very high-risk properties in non-FHSZ burn like FHSZ properties and do not receive the same access to mitigation and government recovery resources. To end discrimination FHSZ risk sould be based on fire frequency. FHSZ maps are not capturing homes and parts of the state actually burning.
December 05, 2012, NIST and Forest Service created the World's First Hazard Scale for Wildland Fires in 2012 by the Obama Administration and the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) scientists to further develop cutting-edge wildfire codes and standards to build communities that can stand alone without intervention of first responders. NIST. TN 2205
2018, President Trump and his administration had the responsibility to support tax paid wildfire science testing technologies to build stand-alone communities . Instead Trump canceled the Joint Fire Science Program Federal Partnership with the National Institute of Technilogy and The US Forest Service creating the 4 part WUI Hazard Scale first testing Vegetation fhen Structures, Vehicals and Ornamental Vetgitation at a later date.
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Trump canceled the Joint Fire Science Program a Federal Partnership developing standalone building codes with the 4 part WUI Hazard Scale testing first Vegetation then Structures, Vehicles, and Ornamental Vegetation at a later date.