Idea for fire-proof California home...

[morningglory]

Not a chemist, never lived in a desert. There is a product for mobile homes called Cool Seal or kool seal or something, which is a thick paint that insulates a trailer roof and makes it easier to heat/cool. Maybe some inventor could make an un-flammable thick paint to paint the roof and the whole house, where embers could land and not ignite the roof. Something like adobe mud. Thick. How 'bout igloo-shaped houses where the embers slide off? Just an idea. Here in Florida in the Everglades and Big Cypress Swamp, there are many hunting cabins, inaccessible by any road, have to use swamp buggy or something to get to them. I was on an archaeological survey of the Big C Swamp and looked in many of them. The doors are never locked. When the water is high, the owners go out to their cabin--which are always on high hammocks, 6"-1' off the swamp floor--and burn their hammock. Since it was burned last year there is no underbrush, and the cabin, and trees never burn. Water is high, surrounding the hammock, so the "prairie" does not ignite. All the animals that were up on the hammock, dive off into the surrounding water and save themselves. Then during the next low water period, they go back in and set fire to the prairie. The animals run up on to the hammocks and all is well. They are fire proof for another year. Must be some solution.