I already have a lawn and a stone buffer around the foundation. house is only 5 years old so only a couple of smaller trees in the yard. the home itself is built out of a composite material (Hardie plank) thats fire resistant

I've been watching these model runs since it looks like the smoke may try to approach here on Thursday. The HRRR surface visibility product has widespread 1-3 mi visibilities with some areas even below 1 mile. That would cause some really serious air quality issues.

That's what it's supposed to be like over here. The East Coast always gets it good these days.

I don’t care if it’s elevated above the boundary layer but this is advecting right down to the surface like 2023. Grotesque.

That sounds about right. Bureaucracy at it finest! Hopefully lessons were learned and the created provisions for that going forward, but that said, I'm sure there is red tape that would prevent such smart thinking. My brother drastically cut back on burns during drought years, and actually, I think they fire that got away from them was during one of those periods.