It would just be a waste of plastic.

This is like asking which color you should paint your house to prevent fire.

In both cases, borrowing the words of stand-up drunkard Ron White, "It's not that the wind is blowing; it's what the wind is blowing."

The house itself should be well waterproofed, the problems come from broken windows, punctured roof due to falling trees, or in a tornado, just being pushed over.

modern houses are already wrapped in tyvek which is super strong but it is inside the exterior shell.

I think wind is the biggest problem for hurricanes, unless you are in the storm surge. Wrap probably won’t help, and would get torn up by debris if the wind doesn’t rip it off. How thick are we talking?

It is terrible.

Houses are already wrapped with materials like Tyvek, before the exterior is put on.

It would create more of a barrier for wind and water to get caught in which could result in much more structural damage. My understanding is you WANT the air to flow through a house unabated in both situations as it would remove the instances of areas of very different air pressure which would result in essentially an air explosion.

I’ve through three major hurricanes: Irma, Ian, and Milton. Irma was okay, Milton was bad, Ian was baaad.

Short answer: nope.

• It would not hold up.

• New houses are built to crazy code anyway.

• The big risk is flooding, and a tarp won’t do anything about it.

if you want mold in your house, yes. better to reinforce the house, or build it out bricks/concrete. plus, plastics smells when it heats up overtime and degrades releasing chemicals.

It couldnt hurt provided you remove it immediately after the storm is over and you would need to use something substantially stronger than kitchen grade wrap. Think industrial pallet wrap and a LOT of it definitely a large expense and a mountain of work for a questionable level of protection.

Practically speaking though it could prevent a lot of minor storm damage and prevent it from becoming large damage, would definitely protect the windows to some degree and secure items so they dont get ripped off the house.

I think that in order to explain my thoughts on this I want to explain how warehouses transport pallets of stuff with plastic wrap. Using plastic wrap for transporting/moving stuff is incredibly useful, but not how you might think. It's not that the stuff inside is any safer than if you didn't use it. It's more that the stuff inside is incredibly contained and likely to hold it's shape even if things start to break. Which means you won't have a giant mess to clean up, and you can reasonably rely on it to support any other things stacked on top of your pallet.

This wouldn't work for safeguarding your house, because if you've ever dunked something wrapped in Saran wrap you'll notice that it's not always water tight. Add extreme winds and the wrap will likely peel off and make things worse. I think you'd probably have a giant mess, and be no more protected than if you didn't use any Saran wrap at all

Yes absolutely