Alabama Fortified Homes
Build Safe. Build Strong. Build fortified.
The National standard for resilient construction
Real Estate Agents and Contractors:
Your clients trust you to deliver their dream home. Make sure you give them the safest FORTIFIED home possible.
Knockout has certified over 15,000 FORTIFIED Homes™!
Knockout presents "The FORTIFIED Factor" Podcast
This podcast is for everyone, useful for homeowners, home buyers, real estate agents, roofers, and builders. The topic is crucial in today’s real estate industry.
With the help of AI, we’ve started conversations about being strong, dependable, and ready for bad weather. This is important for one of your biggest investments: YOUR HOME!
Why build fortified?
The Fortified Home Program helps homes stay safe. It protects both new and existing homes. The program defends against hurricanes, tropical storms, hail, strong winds, and heavy rain from thunderstorms. The Fortified Home Standard includes three levels of protection:
Fortified Roof
FORTIFIED Home™ Roof level addresses the roof system. By creating a sealed roof deck, these upgrades reduce wind and water entering the attic through the roof covering and vents.
Silver
The FORTIFIED Home™ Silver level covers more than just the roof system. It also includes windows, doors, chimneys, and attached structures. Learn more about the grant program and grant funds offered by the Alabama department of insurance by visiting our Strengthen Alabama Homes program page here.
gold
The FORTIFIED Home™ Gold level connects the roof, walls, floors, and foundation. This makes the house work as one system.
About Alabama Fortified Homes
Home and business owners across the country are strengthening their properties against storm damage by using FORTIFIED construction standards. If you are building a new home, replacing the roof, or renovating, FORTIFIED can help. A cost-effective way to protect your home exists.
Researchers based FORTIFIED on more than 20 years of research and real-world testing. The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) completed this work.
FORTIFIED standards exist for coastal Alabama, as well as inland construction. Each standard will help reduce damage from specific weather threats a building may face. These include hurricanes, hail, high winds, weak tornadoes, and other similar weather events.
We serve Mobile and Baldwin counties. We also serve the nearby counties of Montgomery, Autauga, Lee, Escambia, Santa Rosa, and Okaloosa.
Benefits of Fortified
The program starts by focusing on the roof, which is the most important and vulnerable part of every building.
FORTIFIED goes beyond code. It meets and goes beyond most building codes. It helps buildings perform better during natural disasters. This also lowers the risk of losing personal property.
This special systems-based method needs to document and check all parts of construction. This ensures that builders construct homes and businesses to the right standard.
A FORTIFIED Evaluator is the only expert who can help you get a FORTIFIED Designation. This will let you enjoy all the program’s benefits. Homes with a FORTIFIED™ Designation in Alabama receive discounts on the wind portion of their homeowner’s insurance premium.
Additionally, a new study from the University of Alabama shows that FORTIFIED™ homes sell for nearly 7% more than non-FORTIFIED™ homes.
Knockout Inspections is an IBHS Approved and Certified FORTIFIED Evaluator. We can ensure that builders construct or renovate homes to meet the standards for the FORTIFIED designation.