Wildfires

Tips to help you prepare and respond in a wildfire

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Prepare your property for wildfire, then review plans annually

Even if you’ve taken precautions to make your home or business resistant to wildfire, take time each year to review your preparations.

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Clear Your Home Ignition Zone

Follow these tips to clear 100 feet around your home. Reduce your wildfire risk by creating defensible space.

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How To Create A Defensible Space

Defensible space helps protect your home against wildfire.

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Precautions Before Evacuation

Prepare today in case of an evacuation order tomorrow.

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5 ways to protect your home from wildfire embers

You’ve taken the precautions to make your home resistant to wildfire, yet you may still be at risk.

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Fire & Ember Vent Industry Update

Fire and ember vents that pass ASTM E2886/2912 standards can resist intrusion of flames, hot embers and radiant heat into buildings.

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Suppression tips may help keep homes standing

When a house is still standing after a wildfire destroys neighboring homes, observers often wonder how the home survived.

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Checklist: Wildfire Pre-Evacuation Steps

When a wildfire has been reported near your home and an evacuation is anticipated, complete this checklist of steps (if time allows) to give your home the best chance of surviving.

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Make emergency evacuation plan for your horse

Having a disaster plan is critical to keeping your animal companions safe. And horses require extra consideration because of their size and specific transportation needs.

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Could your gate lock out first responders?

In an emergency, first responders need immediate access to the affected property. While perimeter walls, gates and fences do a great job of maintaining privacy, these physical barriers could delay help from police, paramedics or fire departments.

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Safety tips before, during and after a wildfire

Consider these tips to help you and your family before, during and after a wildfire. But if an evacuation is ordered, do not delay; safety is your first priority.

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Defensible space can make the difference in a wildfire

Creating defensible space around your home or business could make a major difference in whether your structure survives a wildfire.

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Adapt your business continuity plan for pandemic conditions

Planning for natural disasters is an inevitable and necessary part of every disaster preparation or business continuity plan. But how effective can these plans be in the midst of a pandemic?

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Reduce your risk before a wildfire threatens

Although not every wildfire can be prevented, you can take steps to make your property more resilient should a wildfire threaten.

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Wildfire Protection Service

Eligible Cincinnati Insurance policyholders in select states can receive potentially home-saving protection through our relationship with Wildfire Defense Services.

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Safeguard valuable records and papers

Losing valuable business records to a fire or natural disaster could seriously affect business operations. Take steps to protect valuable papers, or consider ways to store copies.

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Lights out: Preparing for power outages

Most of us can, reluctantly, endure the occasional brief power outage from a weather event or other calamity. But an extended power outage can be a challenge to our dependence on modern appliances and electronic devices, and disaster plans should take power loss into account.

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Make a generator part of your emergency backup plan

Does your emergency preparedness plan include a generator? Whether you’re facing a public safety power shutoff in California due to red flag wildfire conditions or an ice storm, heavy snow or hurricane that downed power lines or another manmade or environmental emergency, it’s a good idea to be ready for power outages.

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Cincinnati Responds to Gatlinburg Wildfire

When a wildfire spread through Gatlinburg, TN, local Cincinnati teams moved quickly to help our agents and policyholders recover.

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Coping with loss in a catastrophe: What to do

Protecting yourself and your family is your first priority in the aftermath of a catastrophic event. When your auto, home, business or personal property is damaged or destroyed by a tornado, hail, flood or other destructive event, focus on people first.

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Cincinnati’s Catastrophe Response Team

Our catastrophe response program is unique in the industry.

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