The wildfire that devastated Paradise is still fresh in everyone's memory but it has only begun as an analysis showed that several other towns and communities in California are at risk of having the same fate as Paradise.
Impoverished towns in the shadow of Mount Shasta. Rustic Gold Rush cities in the Sierra Nevada foothills. High-dollar resort communities on the shores of Lake Tahoe. Ritzy Los Angeles County suburbs. They all could be the next Paradise.
A McClatchy analysis reveals more than 350,000 Californians live in towns and cities that exist almost entirely within “very high fire hazard severity zones” — Cal Fire’s designation for places highly vulnerable to devastating wildfires.
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People who build and love in high fire danger zones need to pay for fire insurance and not count on government to pay for their risky behavior.
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