5093 Malibu Drive

The Story Behind This Home

This home did not happen by accident. It was a deliberate act of rebuilding not just a house, but a commitment to a community that had been through the unthinkable.

The Camp Fire destroyed nearly 19,000 structures and displaced 52,000 people overnight. Paradise, a town built on generations of families, small businesses, and deep roots, was gone in a single day. The people who lost everything were not statistics. They were neighbors, tradespeople, teachers, and retirees who had spent their lives building something and watched it burn.

5093 Malibu Drive was designed as a statement about what rebuilding differently looks like and what it can mean for every homeowner in California fire country.

Built By the Community, For the Community

When we broke ground, we made a deliberate choice: hire locally. The craftspeople who built this home were Paradise and Chico residents and some of them had lost their own homes in the same fire. Rebuilding was not just their job. It was personal.

That decision shaped everything about how the project was run. It required patience, flexibility, and genuine respect for what the people around us had been through. It also produced a home built with an extraordinary level of care because the people building it understood exactly what was at stake.

Why It Matters

Conventional rebuilding after a wildfire tends to reproduce the same materials and methods that burned in the first place. Code compliance is the standard and code minimum still means conventional construction in most cases. That means thousands of homes rebuilt in Paradise since the Camp Fire are already facing the same insurance challenges that drove carriers out of the market before.

We chose a different path. Six-inch reinforced concrete walls. Net Zero energy certification from PG&E. A 4-hour fire rated assembly. Fire insurance at $2,800 per year when comparable homes were being quoted at $6,000 to $12,000, when coverage was available at all. This home was built to prove that resilient construction is not a luxury. It is a choice.