Fortified homes needed, but they’re not cheap

Matthew McNulty

03/14/2025

FIRST OF A KIND: Ten years ago, this South Kingstown house on Teal Drive was the first in Rhode Island to be constructed to the Fortified building standard developed by the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety in 2010. There are bills in the state Senate and House to make funding available for more homes to be “hardened” against extreme weather.  PBN PHOTO/ELIZABETH GRAHAM

The 2,400-square-foot clapboard-covered home overlooking Green Hill Pond in South Kingstown didn’t look particularly extraordinary among the other houses along Teal Drive when it was built in 2015. But there was something special about it: The coastal house was the first in Rhode Island constructed to the disaster certification standard known as Fortified, a more

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