Free tool · About two minutes
Defensible space check
Answer twelve quick questions about your house and garden. It takes about two minutes. At the end you get a list of what to fix, in the order we would fix it, with the free jobs first.
Ohad Golan, who founded Hephaestus Fire Solutions, lives in Souni, Cyprus. When the July 2025 wildfire reached the village, the equipment he had saved his house and his neighbours' houses. The questions below come from that night and from what we have learned since.
In 22 of the first 63 checks, the space under a deck or veranda was being used for storage.
Updated 29 September 2026. These are the answers people gave about their own homes; nobody inspected them.
