‘Left with nothing’: inside California’s wildfire home insurance crisis As California sees increasingly devastating fires, Butte county residents lose their insurance – and homes The Guardian - US · Aug 10, 2024
California wildfires grew worse. The Forest Service dropped more retardant. Did it help? Greg Bolin has watched the colorful spray of fire retardant fall from airplanes over the canyon near his home. He has also had wildfires come close to his back door. McClatchy Washington Bureau · Apr 20, 2023
More than half of rural California now ranks ‘very high’ for wildfire hazard LOS ANGELES — For the first time, more than half of California’s rural and unincorporated communities could soon be classified as “very high” fire hazard severity zones, according to a proposed map from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Los Angeles Times · Dec 27, 2022