Here Are the Wildfire Risks to Homes Across the Lower 48 States


By
Christopher Flavelle and Nadja Popovich, The New York Times. 

Excerpt: [county-by-county map of the U.S.] New data was used to calculate fire risk to residential and other properties. The threats are rising. ...The data, released Monday by the First Street Foundation, a nonprofit research group in New York, comes as rising housing prices in cities and suburbs push Americans deeper into fire-prone areas, with little idea about the specific risk in their new locale.…

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