Straight talk on protecting your home from embers, storms, and break-ins, from the team that fire-tests its own shutters instead of just talking about it.
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Your house doesn't lose at the walls. It loses at the windows.
When a wildfire reaches a home, the glass is almost always the first thing to go. Here's why embers and radiant heat beat ordinary windows, and the fire-tested way to shut them out.
Independently Fire-Tested
Inferno-Roll shutters were tested at Western Fire Center, an independent fire lab, to California's wildfire exposure methods. Here's what the shutters did against real heat and real flame.
30 min
Held back wildfire radiant heat with no burn-through (ICAL test)
16–20 min
Held direct open flame before burn-through (CSFM 12-7A-1)
~1 min
How fast an uncoated control shutter failed, for comparison
150 kW
Direct-flame burner the coated shutters stood up to
Minutes of protection before burn-through
Uncoated shutter (flame)
Standard wildfire test
Inferno-Roll (direct flame)
Inferno-Roll (radiant heat)
Source: Western Fire Center, WFCi reports #22033a (radiant heat) & #22033b (direct flame).
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