Wildfire risk: five checks every facilities and estates team should make

Smoke, road closures and fast-changing local conditions can affect buildings, outdoor areas and mobile workers long before flames reach an organisation’s estate. Josh McNicholas, a senior lead at Evalu-8, explains the practical checks facilities teams should be completing.
Wildfire is easy to categorise as an emergency-services, environmental or rural land-management issue.
For facilities and estates teams, however, the operational effects can begin well before flames reach the boundary of