Landscapers, homeowners contend with California's Zone Zero regulations

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One year after the devastating wildfires, California is looking to create plant-free zones around homes in high-risk fire areas. Many people are resisting the Zone Zero regulations due to cost and inconvenience.

Following last January's wildfires, a battle is raging over how to prevent future catastrophic fires in California, and whether new regulations could help homeowners get insured.

Although thousands of homes in Los Angeles exist in very high-fire zones, every neighborhood is different, which has some concerned about a one-size-fits-all law called Zone Zero, the newest iteration of California's defensible space requirements.

Zone Zero is the area closest to a home's perimeter, the space from zero to five feet. The goal of the new law is to create an ember-resistant defensible zone.