Give Your Home
a Fighting Chance.
Even When
You're Not There.
When a wildfire threatens your property, you may have minutes to evacuate. CitroSafe™ systems keep working after you leave — giving your home the best defense even when you're not there.
Home Hardening
Comes First.
A CitroSafe™ system is most effective when paired with proper home hardening — ember-resistant venting, defensible landscaping, and structural detailing that reduces ignition risk. The two work together. One without the other leaves gaps.
We can handle your home hardening for you, or design a plan you can execute yourself — landscaping, ember venting, and everything in between. Either way, you get a complete defense strategy, not just a sprinkler system.
Three Homeowners.
One Problem.
You Live Here. This Is Everything.
You've built your life in Montana. The house, the land, the community. When fire season hits, you watch the news and hope it misses you. Hoping isn't a plan.
You're Not There When It Happens.
Your cabin sits empty most of the year. No one to call the fire department early. No one to defend the structure. By the time you get the alert, it's already too late to do anything.
Your Insurance May Not Cover What You Think.
You've invested anywhere from $500K up to millions into your Montana property. Your carrier is already pulling back from wildfire-exposed markets. A claim denial after a total loss isn't something you recover from easily.
Water Buys
Minutes.
CitroTech Buys
Months.
Municipal Water Pressure Drops
When a wildfire hits your area, every hydrant and home system in the region is drawing at once. Water pressure drops to nothing exactly when you need it most.
Power Outages Kill Electric Pumps
Wildfires take out power lines early. If your sprinkler system depends on electricity or a municipal connection, it's offline before the fire arrives.
Water Evaporates in Minutes
In extreme heat and wind, water-based systems provide minutes of protection at most — not nearly enough when fire behavior is unpredictable.
Embers Ignite What Water Misses
The leading cause of home loss during wildfires isn't direct flame contact — it's ember cast that can travel 1 to 5 miles — or over ten miles in extreme conditions — landing in gutters, vents, and vegetation far from any visible flame.
CitroSafe™ systems use a fundamentally different approach. Instead of water, they deploy CitroTech's patented fire inhibitor — a citric acid-based formula that bonds to surfaces and vegetation, rendering them non-flammable for up to three months.
It runs off its own onboard tank and reserve power — no tie-in to your well, your plumbing, or the utility grid. Trigger it from your phone on the way out, and it keeps working after you leave.
It's not a backup to your existing system. It's a completely different category of protection.
See How CitroSafe™ WorksProtected in
Four Steps.
From your first call to a fully active system, most residential installs are complete in three to seven days. Here's what the process looks like.
Free Assessment
We evaluate your property — structure, vegetation zones, access points, and highest ignition risk areas. You get a detailed risk profile and system recommendation at no cost.
Custom System Design
Every install is different. We design your CitroSafe™ system around your specific property — roof-mounted, perimeter, or a combination — targeting where your home is most vulnerable.
Professional Installation
Our certified crew handles the full installation — typically three to seven days depending on property size and configuration. Clean, professional, no disruption to your landscaping.
Activate & Evacuate
Every system includes a SwitchBox controller with its own dedicated phone number tied to an app on your phone — so you can deploy from anywhere in the world. A manual override is built in as a backup. Activate, evacuate, and leave knowing your home has a fighting chance.
Rooftop &
Perimeter.
Most CitroSafe™ installations combine a rooftop system and a perimeter system working together for full coverage. Your property assessment determines the exact configuration.
Roof-Mounted Defense
Strategically placed sprinkler heads along the roofline deliver 360° coverage of your structure and the immediate surrounding area. Ideal for homes where ember ignition on the roof and gutters is the primary risk.
- Full roofline and eave coverage
- Blocks ember ignition at the structure
- Coats surrounding vegetation simultaneously
- Remotely activated — works while you evacuate
- Self-contained tank, no water hookup required
Perimeter Defense
Sprinkler heads placed around your property perimeter treat the vegetation and ground cover surrounding your home — laying down a non-toxic chemical firebreak that knocks down fire activity well short of the structure itself.
- Treats vegetation and ground cover
- Creates a chemical firebreak perimeter
- Adds defensible space without moonscaping
- Customizable coverage based on property layout
- Can be combined with roof-mounted system
Built In,
Not Bolted On.
On a high-end Montana home, visible sprinkler heads and exposed pipe runs can be a real concern. Some hardware will always be visible — that's the nature of a working system — but our custom home building background means we go well beyond a standard install to minimize it. Heads and plumbing can be tucked into eaves, integrated into soffits, routed through walls during construction, or cleanly retrofitted into existing architecture. For clients who want to go further, we offer custom applications to conceal and blend hardware wherever possible — so the system protects your home without dominating how it looks.
Mitigation
Changes The
Conversation.
Carriers Are Pulling Out of Montana
Major insurers are non-renewing wildfire-exposed properties across the western U.S. If you're in a WUI zone, your coverage may already be at risk.
Documented Mitigation Matters
Montana's HB 136 requires insurers to consider documented wildfire mitigation when making coverage decisions. A certified CitroSafe™ install creates that documentation — and we can help you get certified under HB 136.
Fills the Gap Insurance Leaves
Even with coverage, most policies have limits, exclusions, and depreciation schedules that fall short of full replacement on a custom Montana home. CitroSafe™ protects the structure itself — not just your claim.
Protects Your Property Value
A documented wildfire defense system is an increasingly visible differentiator in Montana real estate markets. Buyers and lenders pay attention to wildfire risk scores.
What Homeowners
Ask Us First.
Don't Wait for
Smoke on the Horizon.
Get a free property assessment from Big Sky Fire Defense. We'll evaluate your risk, design your system, and walk you through exactly what protection looks like for your specific property — no pressure, no obligation.
Request Your Free AssessmentCitroTech is a wildfire defense system designed to reduce ignition risk and slow fire spread. No system can guarantee a structure will survive a wildfire. Results depend on fire conditions, proximity, wind, and other factors outside our control.