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Known as the Bushfire Resilience Rating, the app is a world-first rating system that assesses how vulnerable a specific house is to bushfire.
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To do so, the app combines information about the house, provided by the user, with detailed data about the local environment and the current climate.
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The Resilient Building Council has been hoping the rating will provide a framework for insurance companies to reward individual action by reducing premiums.
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Ms Cotter said making a house resilient did not always require the same level of spending as residents in the Shoalhaven community were implementing, with low-cost measures also able to make a “substantial difference” to the overall strength of a home in the face of a bushfire.
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