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Camp and Woolsey Fires: A Historical and Numeric...
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At the time of writing, the recent Camp and Woolsey Fires in California have burned a combined total of 245,000 acres (93,000 hectares) — an…
Fires in Paradise: Exposure Growth and Catastrop...
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Like many communities in California with a mild climate, affordable housing, and scenic wilderness, Butte County (pop. ~230,000) has grown…
Financing Resilience
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Almost one and a half million people have died in natural disasters over the past 20 years. This is a waste of life; a waste of potential.…
Impact of the California Wildfires: Chris Folkma...
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Chris Folkman, senior director of product management at RMS, was interviewed by Paula Newton on CNN’s Quest Means Business program on Monday,…
The New Reality of North America Wildfire
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Describing the scale and savagery of the wildfires currently burning in California is difficult to do, but a simple recounting of the…
The Lessons From “Last Year’s” Catastrophes
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Catastrophe modeling remains a work in progress. With each upgrade we aim to build a better model, employing expanded data sets for hazard…
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