Will your home survive the next wildfire?
The question every homeowner in fire country asks. Find out how prepared yours is — free, in 60 seconds. Then improve it, layer by layer: structural hardening to the IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidelines, and GraphGel™ — a fire-retardant gel with an ASTM E84 Class A flame-spread rating — applied ahead of elevated fire danger. Every step documented.
Assess it. Harden it. Defend it.
Know where your home stands. Strengthen its defensibility. Add a protective layer to protect from fires. Every plan starts with a free 60-second assessment.
Assess
- Free · 60 seconds · one assessment per address
- Physics-based model of ember, radiant heat & direct flame risk
- See how each hardening package improves your position
Harden
- Hardening to the IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidelines
- Ember-resistant venting, roof & assembly upgrades, defensible space
- Every upgrade documented, with standards and dates
Defend
- Fire-retardant gel with an ASTM E84 Class A surface-burning classification
- Bonds to wood, glass, vegetation & concrete — washes off after
- Applied ahead of elevated fire danger; washes off with water
We took GraphGel™ to the evening news.
ABC7 Los Angeles filmed our controlled burn demonstration in Agua Dulce: two identical structures, one coated with GraphGel™ — a fire-retardant gel with an ASTM E84 Class A flame-spread rating. The uncoated house was fully engulfed. The GraphGel™ house came through with only minimal signs of damage.
It’s the same two-layer approach we bring to every property: harden to the guidelines, add the GraphGel™ layer ahead of elevated fire danger, and document every step.
Segment courtesy of ABC7 Los Angeles (KABC-TV) · Read the full story ↗
Know your home's survivability.
Every property in fire country sits somewhere on a survivability scale — how likely it is to come through a wildfire intact. Our free survivability assessment shows where yours stands today: free, about 60 seconds, one assessment per address.
Your results show how each hardening package — and the GraphGel™ layer — moves your home up the scale, so you know exactly where to start. Every improvement is documented as it happens.
Indicative estimate for educational purposes. The survivability calculator is a risk-awareness tool — not an insurance rating, an underwriting decision, a guarantee of any outcome, or a prediction that any structure will survive a wildfire.
Most unprotected properties in fire country sit here — exposed to embers and radiant heat, with no active defense in place.
Fires burn hotter. Premiums climb. Waiting is the risk.
Wildfire seasons are longer and more destructive, and insurers are repricing — or dropping — properties in the wildland-urban interface. The question is no longer whether your area will face fire. It's whether your property is built and defended to survive it.
The Wildfire Guardian closes that gap with a single, accountable system: harden the structure year-round, then add a protective GraphGel™ layer ahead of elevated fire danger.
Two layers. One defense.
Most wildfire products do one thing. The Wildfire Guardian runs a layered approach — a durable foundation that works every day of the year, and an on-demand surge for the hours that matter most. Your survivability assessment reflects both, before you spend a dollar.
Structural Hardening
Durable · Year-roundWe harden your property using measures aligned to the IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidance — the protections that work before a fire is ever on the horizon: ember-resistant venting, hardened roof and gutter lines, defensible space, and assembly-level upgrades. IBHS is an independent research organization; Wildfire Guardian is not affiliated with or endorsed by IBHS.
GraphGel™ Surge
On-demand · Class AWhen fire threatens, GraphGel™ is applied to your property — a fire-retardant gel that bonds to wood, glass, vegetation, and concrete to help resist heat and flame while it's in place. It carries an ASTM E84 Class A surface-burning classification. When the threat passes, it rinses off.
Watch the ABC7 segment → See your assessment with GraphGel™ →
One system. Three ways in.
The two layers stay the same. How you deploy them is up to you — full hands-off service, your own equipped team, or coordinated protection across a whole community.
Full-Service
- Data-driven risk assessment
- Structural hardening to the guidelines
- Pro GraphGel™ deployment on threat
- Post-threat remediation & clean-up
- Insurance documentation support
Equip & Train
- Risk assessment & hardening plan
- Complete GraphGel™ deployment kit
- In-person mixing & application training
- On-demand training videos
- Annual equipment & spec check
Community & HOA
- Coordinated multi-property hardening
- Rapid GraphGel™ deployment crews
- Defensible shield across shared spaces
- Private firefighting partnerships
- HOA & board reporting
Protection you can prove.
Two things that matter: added protection for your property, and a documented file that supports your insurance conversations.
Designed to help defend against ember attack
- Helps shield structures and critical infrastructure from ember intrusion and radiant heat
- Adds a protective layer for what's inside
- Stays in place while the threat is present, then rinses off
- Formulated to be low-toxicity; see the product Safety Data Sheet for handling and safety information
A documented file for your insurance conversations
- A survivability assessment that describes your exposure — and documents the actions you take
- Hardening documented against recognized wildfire-preparedness guidance
- A documentation trail you can share in coverage conversations
- Aims to reduce the disruption a fire can cause to a home or business
- A proactive, documented approach rather than waiting to repair
Any insurance premium, discount, or coverage outcome is determined solely by your insurer. Wildfire Guardian does not set premiums or guarantee coverage or savings.
Protect what matters — let's build your plan.
Step one is the free 60-second assessment — start it here. From there, an assessment maps your property's risk, scopes the hardening, and sets your threat-time response plan.
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Survivability is our whole reason for being.
We exist to change the outcome when wildfire reaches the wildland-urban interface — and to prove the protection is real.
To make wildfire preparedness clearer, improvable, and within reach for every property in fire country.
Wildfire Guardian brings together a survivability assessment, durable structural hardening, and GraphGel™ — a fire-retardant gel with a Class A surface-burning classification — into one accountable system built to help protect homes, businesses, and communities.
The people behind it.
Greg Fenton
Greg’s early career was in insurance — managing investment portfolios and structuring risk for insurers. His focus now is materials: as CEO of a publicly traded advanced-materials company, he led it through the development of GraphGel™, a fire-retardant gel carrying an ASTM E84 Class A surface-burning classification. He founded Wildfire Guardian to commercialize it — pairing the material with a disciplined hardening system and the per-property documentation carriers can evaluate. The Palisades and Eaton fires were the catalyst for the creation of Wildfire Guardian.
Dr. Colin van der Kuur
Colin holds a degree in chemical physics and a doctorate in leadership — a combination behind an unusual career: twenty-five years of leadership in the non-profit world, followed by eight years leading research at an advanced-materials company, where he directed internal research and collaborated with more than ten Canadian university research groups, building a portfolio of intellectual property and patents. At Wildfire Guardian, he leads the product development of GraphGel™ and the survivability assessment. A resident of Kelowna, B.C. — in one of Canada’s most fire-prone regions — Colin considers the development of the most advanced technologies to protect homes from wildfire a personal mission.
Mark Hoppenjans
Mark brings more than twenty years of commercial leadership across manufacturing and sustainability-driven industries, with roles spanning business development, operations, and national sales — including sales and sustainable-business leadership at Sev-Rend and Green Bay Packaging. A GRI-certified sustainability professional, he has advised organizations across North America on sustainability strategy, compliance, and program development. At Wildfire Guardian, Mark leads commercial strategy, partnerships, and go-to-market across the company’s regional markets.
Dr. Deepak Sridhar
Dr. Deepak Sridhar is a licensed Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) in Ontario, Canada. He earned his PhD at McGill University as a Vanier Scholar and has co-authored more than twenty scientific articles across materials science and chemical engineering. At Wildfire Guardian, he is currently focused on new materials and product development.
How we deliver.
Wildfire Guardian is the system. Delivery runs through specialist networks we're building in each market — the contractors who harden, the crews who defend, and the insurance partners who price and recognize the result.
Contractor network
We're building a network of restoration and building contractors to execute structural hardening aligned to IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidelines — delivered and documented the same way in every market we serve.
Private firefighters & field crews
A network of private firefighting and field-response teams we're assembling for GraphGel™ application, on-threat defense, and post-fire remediation — the surge capability behind Layer 02.
Insurance partners
We're building relationships across the insurance market — MGAs and carriers — to connect hardened, defended, and documented properties to capacity and recognition where it counts.
Let's work together.
Builders, contractors, fire districts, carriers — tell us about your organization and how you'd like to partner with Wildfire Guardian, and we'll be in touch.
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Wildfire risk you can harden and document.
Wildfire Guardian pairs durable structural hardening with on-threat GraphGel™ application, and gives you per-property documentation to support your own underwriting review — hardening actions taken, materials used, and deployment readiness. How you weigh that in pricing remains entirely your decision.
Three inputs for your own review.
Not a score to take on faith — a material with an independent test classification, an active loss-mitigation action, and a documentation trail per property.
A Class A material
GraphGel™ carries an ASTM E84 Class A surface-burning classification — the highest flame-spread class in that test standard, and an independent, testable result rather than a proprietary claim. ASTM E84 measures surface burning characteristics in a laboratory test; it is not a wildfire-performance rating.
Active, on-threat measures
Hardening is intended to reduce baseline exposure year-round; GraphGel™ is applied when a fire threatens, adding a protective layer during the hours that can matter most.
Per-property records
Each enrolled property generates a documentation trail — assessment, record of hardening measures completed, and deployment records — so the actions taken are evidenced rather than asserted.
ASTM E84 — Class A.
GraphGel™'s surface-burning classification is the anchor of the carrier conversation: an independent, standardized test result, not a marketing figure. It reflects laboratory surface-burning performance under ASTM E84, and is not itself a measure of real-world wildfire outcomes. We make the underlying test documentation available for your file.
- Standardized surface-burning classification (ASTM E84 Class A)
- Low-toxicity formulation; rinses off once the threat passes
- Bonds to wood, glass, vegetation and concrete
The per-property documentation package.
What Wildfire Guardian hands an underwriter for each enrolled property.
Survivability assessment
The property's baseline survivability read and the factors driving it.
Hardening record
A record of structural hardening measures completed, aligned to IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidelines.
Deployment readiness
Confirmation of GraphGel™ readiness and the property's threat-time response plan.
Documentation summary
A standardized summary of the assessment and the measures completed for the file. Not a warranty, certification, or guarantee of any outcome.
The data — documented sources only.
The underlying figures live in the product documentation package, not on a marketing page — each one traceable to a documented source. Depending on the item, the package may include:
- Test documentation — methodology, test conditions, and source for each reported result
- Independent third-party test results where they exist (e.g., ASTM E84 classification)
- The survivability model's inputs, intended use, and stated limitations — provided as a risk-awareness model, not a validated rating engine
- References to recognized benchmarks and standards, with sources cited
Equipment staged where the risk is.
A program option that pre-positions deployment equipment and materials at the insured property, with trained, documented response — turning protection from a promise into a staged, ready capability your markets can see.
Commercial framework.
Structures we're open to exploring with a carrier or reinsurer partner. Any pricing, premium, or coverage decision rests entirely with the carrier.
- Documentation designed to support a carrier's own consideration of hardening and deployment readiness in its pricing
- Preferred-supplier and referral arrangements — including referral of declined or high-risk properties to Wildfire Guardian
- An agreed reporting cadence and the data Wildfire Guardian shares back on enrolled properties
- A structured pilot — geography, property count, success criteria, and term
Wildfire Guardian is not an insurer and does not provide insurance, set premiums, or offer premium credits. These are prospective commercial structures, not current offerings, and any such arrangement would be subject to a definitive written agreement and applicable regulatory requirements.
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For underwriters, reinsurers, and program partners: request the full documentation package, the GraphGel™ credential file, and a partnership discussion.
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Strengthen — and document — your community's wildfire preparedness.
Wildfire Guardian is the platform that helps harden a community home by home, coordinates its defense, and documents the actions taken — so the board has a record it can share with its insurers.
Insurers often weigh the whole community. Each home that hardens can strengthen the community’s documented risk story — and the board has the records to show it.
Insurers often weigh wildfire risk across a whole community — so one exposed home can affect the picture for everyone, and carriers are non-renewing fire-exposed neighborhoods outright. Hardening, defending, and documenting it is how a community builds a stronger, evidenced risk story to present to its insurers. Insurance decisions remain with each carrier.
Illustrative — wildfire spreads structure to structure, which is why insurers weigh a community's risk collectively.
One program, two levels of action.
Two ways in: the association contracts for the common-area program, and homeowners opt in for their own properties. Wildfire Guardian runs both on one platform — and documents all of it.
What the board can run
Community-wide work the board can contract for directly, across the common property it controls.
- Common areas & greenbeltsHardening and shared-fuel reduction in the spaces between homes — the launchpads embers use.
- Coordinated GraphGel™ surge planA community-wide readiness and deployment plan, defined before fire season.
- Community survivability baselineOne read across the community that shows where it stands — and rises as members enroll.
- Board & insurance reportingDocumentation built for the board and for the community's insurance conversations.
What homeowners opt into
The board can't harden private homes — so the platform makes it simple for owners to do it themselves, and counts every one.
- Harden their own homeStructural hardening aligned to IBHS Wildfire Prepared Home™ guidelines, through Wildfire Guardian's contractor network.
- On-threat GraphGel™ coverageTheir property added to the community's surge-deployment plan when a fire threatens.
- Their own survivability recordA per-home survivability read and documentation each owner can take to their own carrier.
Wildfire Guardian ties it together. Every enrolled property and hardening action feeds the community's survivability baseline and the board's insurance documentation.
Every home that hardens helps the ones around it.
Embers can travel structure to structure — so each member who hardens can help reduce exposure for their neighbors, not just themselves. As participation grows, the community's overall preparedness improves. For the board, running this turns wildfire exposure into real member value:
A harder community
Coordinated hardening and on-threat defense reduce ignition risk across the homes and the shared spaces between them.
A documented risk story for carriers
A stronger, evidenced risk profile the community — and each owner — can take to insurers, in a market pulling back from undocumented wildfire exposure.
One coordinated program, not a DIY scramble
Members get a single managed path to protection and proof — instead of every household trying to solve wildfire alone.
We don't just hand you a report. Wildfire Guardian works alongside your board and your carriers — presenting the community's documented hardening and defense actions in terms carriers can review, to support the community's insurance conversations. Any coverage or pricing outcome is determined by the carrier.
We're onboarding carrier partners now — named here as each program goes live.
It starts with your community's survivability.
Every program begins with a community survivability baseline — a clear, qualitative read of how your community would fare today, and how far coordinated hardening and defense move it. It's the read a board can see, track as members enroll, and take to its insurers.
Directional — a qualitative read, not a score. As members harden their homes and the association acts on the shared spaces, the community moves from exposed toward defended.
From first meeting to documented defense.
Community assessment
We map the community's wildfire exposure and establish a survivability baseline across its properties and shared spaces.
Coordinated hardening plan
A sequenced hardening plan aligned to recognized wildfire-preparedness guidance, scoped for the whole community and its common areas.
Deployment readiness
GraphGel™ readiness and a threat-time response plan, with crews and triggers defined before fire season.
Reporting & documentation
Ongoing reporting for the board and documentation the community can take to its insurers.
Built for communities that share the risk.
Homeowner associations
Protecting members and common areas under a single coordinated program.
Master-planned communities
Large developments standardizing wildfire defense across many homes and shared amenities.
Fire districts & coalitions
Districts and neighborhood coalitions extending hardening and active defense at scale.
See where your community stands — free.
Request a complimentary community survivability baseline: a clear read of where your community sits today, the factors driving its risk, and a board-ready outline of a coordinated program. No cost, no obligation.
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