Is your home safe from potential wildfires? A new tool released by the First Street Foundation found these three Bay Area counties to be the most at risk in an event of a wildfire.
The First Street Foundation just released a first-of-its-kind analysis of the wildfire risk for individual properties nationwide, creating hundreds of millions of simulations using data on local topography, climate metrics and building footprints."We focused our metrics on properties specifically and also on the term of a mortgage because our goal was to make it meaningful to individuals," said chief of research Jeremy Porter.
In the Bay Area the steepest increase in risk was in Marin, Napa and most noticeably in Sonoma County. While doing things to protect your home will help, the study concluded that a community-wide effort is needed to create a real firewall. One option is to greatly increase the number of controlled burns, according to a study released out of U.C. Irvine.
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