What kind of roof provides the most fire protection?

What kind of roof provides the most fire protection?

Stacy Gerlich (Fire Captain & Paramedic) gives expert video advice on: What are common household fire hazards?; How can I prevent household electrical fires?; How can I prevent household fireplace fires? and more...

As far as single family dwellings and roofing materials go, the wood shake is out, it's obsolete. Actually now they have the light-weight concrete roofing, which would be better in terms of fire protection. So anything nowadays really that you are going to purchase, and that's going to be installed, will certainly meet the codes and standards that you need to adhere to. But I would definitely stay away from the wood shingle roofing, even though they are treated now, and they are the look which people usually go for, it's not necessarily the safest. So the lightweight concrete is really the safer way to go in terms of roofing providing the most fire protection.