The Climate-Resilient Home: A Practical Guide to Weathering Extreme Heat, Floods, Wildfire Smoke, Power Outages, and an Uncertain Future (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798258089588)

Your home was built for a climate that no longer entirely exists-and the gap is growing. Extreme heat waves, flooding in areas that never flooded before, wildfire smoke that reaches across an entire continent, power outages that last not hours but days: these are not future concerns. They are happening now, in neighborhoods like yours, to homeowners just like you.

The Climate-Resilient Home is the practical, step-by-step guide you have been looking for-one that skips the political debate and the survival-bunker extremism and gets straight to the question that actually matters: What can I do to protect my home and family from the weather that is already happening?

Written for the concerned but non-alarmist homeowner, this book takes you through every major climate risk-extreme heat, flooding and water intrusion, wildfire smoke, power outages, water supply disruption, supply chain failure, and structural weather damage-with practical, tiered guidance organized by cost and urgency. Whether your budget is two hundred dollars or twenty thousand, there are meaningful actions you can take right now.

Inside, you will discover how to:

• conduct a real risk assessment for your specific property using free public tools;
• which home improvements provide the most resilience per dollar spent;
• how to improve indoor air quality during wildfire smoke events for under fifty dollars;
• the generator mistakes that leave homeowners worse off in an outage (and what to do instead);
• how to store a two-week water and food supply in a normal home;
• the insurance gaps that leave most homeowners exposed (and how to close them);
• how to build the community connections that are the most overlooked dimension of resilience; and
• how to create a personalized whole-home resilience plan your entire family can use.

This book does not ask you to panic. It asks you to prepare-intelligently, affordably, and with the confidence that comes from taking real action in response to a real situation. Your resilient home starts today.