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5th National Risk Assessment: Fueling the Flames
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- The First Street Foundation Wildfire Model is the only nationwide, probabilistic, climate adjusted, peer reviewed, property specific wildfire risk model for properties in the contiguous United States.
- The model provides a first of its kind analysis of the risk individual properties face from damaging wildfires today, and up to 30 years in the future as a result of climate changes.
- Nationwide, the report finds nearly 20 million properties face “Moderate” risk, (up to a 6% chance of experiencing a wildfire over 30 ye
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The 2021 western North America heat wave among the most extreme events ever recorded globally
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- The heat wave in the Pacific Northwest U.S.
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