FireWise landscaping can be aesthetically pleasing while reducing potential wildfire fuel.
Plant choice, spacing and maintenance are critical. Your landscape, and the plants in it, must be maintained to retain their FireWise properties. Defensible space is the area between a structure and an oncoming wildfire where nearby vegetation has been modified to reduce a wildfire's intensity. Many people resist creating defensible space around their homes because they believe these areas will be unattractive and unnatural. This is far from true.