For California and Western sState governments, Business and Home Hardening offer a platform for public safety, economic resilience, and long-term climate adaptation. By supporting standards, certification pathways, and funding mechanisms—whether through legislation, regulatory alignment, executive orders, or public-private partnerships—states can help create a unified statewide minimum for wildfire protection.
A Hard-Hardened landscape protects lives, reduces structural loss, and significantly eases pressure on emergency-response budgets and disaster-recovery funds. As insurance markets stabilize and utilities face fewer catastrophic events, states enjoy stronger economic continuity and reduced volatility in critical sectors.
Supporting a Business and Home Hardening workforce also creates thousands of skilled jobs in construction, inspection, materials science, vegetation management, logistics, and cooperative business models. State governments can champion this emerging industry as a cornerstone of climate-resilience planning, economic development, and community-benefit strategies for decades to come.