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It doesn't really work that way, again unless the house is literally surrounded by/within a bunch of big trees. Houses usually burn in wildfire due to brands/embers falling on flammable bits that are exposed, or grassfires burning right up to flammable siding and catching that on fire.
It's normal for towns to have trees and greenery on the streets, which conveniently double as tinder.
There's usually lawns and such in between that and the houses though. (or should be, if you have a town somewhere that can also get wildfires.
The safe zone for human survivability if overrun is much smaller than you might think, for reasonable fuel loads -- nevermind the inside of a building.
The burned out neighbourhoods you see in wildfire footage almost always got that way by the houses themselves catching fire one at a time -- in the Kelowna fires aftermath you'd often see the odd house where the builder decided to spring for a tile roof untouched right in the middle of a burnt out street.
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