La Fire Maps forecast no destruction

Gaps in risk communication

Inequality in risk communication is a growing problem because climate change reinforces the natural disasters. While state fire cards are publicly available, more precise risk reviews of the private sector are usually sold to companies and are not shared to the general public. First Street Technology Inc., which provides for an estimates of the climate disease for individual properties, assigned a fire risk assessment value of at least seven out of 10 to 95% of the houses burned in Altadena. These results are integrated into real estate lists on platforms such as Zillow and Redfin, but many homeowners overlook or underestimate their importance.

Risk perception continues to make the problem more difficult. Experts find that many people have potential dangers unless they have experienced them first -hand. Anthony Leiserowitz, director of the Yale program for communicating climate change, said that numerical risk reviews of homeowners often do not resonate. “If they give people such figures, they tend to do so,” he said. “Especially if you are not based on your own experience of someone.”

Homeowners question the intention

State and local civil servants emphasize that the severity of the fire is more on long -term environmental factors than on short -term risk projections. This approach can create a false feeling of security for homeowners directly outside of these areas named. The Palisades Fire, which rated entire neighborhoods, showed this risk, whereby 15% of the houses were destroyed, which according to Corelogic's ratings only had a moderate fire risk.

In the meantime, insurers are accepting. The companies have withdrawn from areas with high risk. State Farm canceled almost 70% of the guidelines in a postcode of the Pacific Palisades before having no new learning forests due to a state moratorium. While the insurance costs could serve as a warning sign for homeowners, many instead rising bonuses see as a reflection of the greed of industry instead of an increased danger.

“I don't see a great deal of fear,” said Marcy Weinstein, a real estate agent in the fire -prone Newport Beach, south of La in Orange County, to Bloomberg. “What we see is the counter reaction to the insurance company, which is so difficult to get. They try to bring their dream home and it is difficult that the insurance will come together. ”