Your home is your largest asset, and possibly your refuge during times of unrest. Security options for the safety of your animals, investments, and family, can come with many financial pitfalls. Most dangers can't be protected by a gun and something as simple as intentional design and regular underbrush maintenance can prove to be the deciding difference between your homes' survival and a total loss in 

This home below survived one of the fastest moving upland fires in Northern California with no other explanation besides their intentional property design, regular forestry maintenance, and natural vegetation barriers.
The simple yet intentional design saved this great asset...