<I seem to recall that your general area not heavily forested>

You are correct. Actual trees are one mile.

The immediate fuel is yellow grass and scrub brush. It burns like gas. The leading edge of a firestorm in cheatgrass looks like a 100' tall surf wave coming at 50 mph.

I have a 300' green belt around the building. With a RED FLAG WARNING I put the lawn system into a 2 minute/channel test program and continually water the lawn.

For the building I put in 30 sprinkler heads of 4GPM each. I run these with a 5 horse pump if we have electricity. If not I use a PTO driven generator on the back of a tractor.

One of the biggest problems that have occured is stranded travelers. When the road is closed, a significant percentage of the stranded demand services that we cannot provide. During one four hour closure, people were near fighting on the highway. Being we are a gun shop with a thousand firearms and their related ammunition, we cannot open the doors without some forethought.