Growing fire-enabling plant material in your yard can increase the fire risk to your home. Switch them out with these ...

Trees are made of wood, so it’s safe to assume that, to some extent, they are flammable—but some pose more of a fire safety issue than others. Fast-growing junipers and eucalyptus, for example ...

Also remove plants from under trees, as these similarly act as a fire ladder. Understory shrubs should be kept at a distance of 10 to 15 feet from the canopy of large trees.

Other plants such as Ceanothus, Coffeeberry and Redberry have seeds with tough coatings and depend on fire to break their dormancy. Ash from burned trees and decaying plants can be beneficial, too.

After a fire, plants may look dead but still be alive. ... A sequoia tree, even while dying in a fire, has roots from which new trees will grow, typically in a ring around where the mother tree stood.

Madena Asbell, director of plant conservation programs for the Mojave Desert Land Trust, walks through its Quail Mountain property in Joshua Tree on Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2019.

Jeanne Moore, left, and Debbie Simms plant trees in a burned out area. Volunteers traveled up to the site of the Stone Canyon Fire outside of Lyons to plant trees on Saturday. (Cliff Grassmick ...