Across the western U.S., wildfires continue to pose a significant threat
As of July 15, 2024, more than 24,000 wildfires have burned over 3 million acres, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). Wildfire activity for the year has been the highest in California where over 3,800 fires burned more than 190,000 acres by July 14, 2024.
The ongoing wildfire threat in the U.S. highlights the critical importance of cultivating accurate risk measurement and management strategies to make communities and properties more resilient to catastrophic events.
And mitigation is an important consideration.
More than 2.6 million homes in the western U.S. are at moderate or greater wildfire risk, and these homes have a combined reconstruction cost value of $1.2 trillion. About 1.2 million of those homes have very high wildfire risk.
In California alone, more than half of a million homes face a very high wildfire risk, with a combined reconstruction value exceeding $300 billion.
However, California is not the only at-risk state.
CoreLogic 2024 Wildfire Risk Report
Whether you’re looking for a Texas wildfire map or a wildfire map of Oregon, CoreLogic’s wildfire risk maps outline the various levels of hazard with granular detail across the country.
Wildfires 2024: A Deep Dive
The CoreLogic 2024 Wildfire Risk Report quantifies the current wildfire risk landscape across the western U.S. The report will:
- Quantify the magnitude of wildfire risk at national, state, and metropolitan levels.
- Demonstrate how risk scores and catastrophe models can be combined to accurately and precisely identify risk concentrations.
- Demonstrate the effectiveness of wildfire mitigation strategies as exemplified by the town of Paradise, California.
- Provide an update on the recovery efforts in Lahaina, Hawaii.
- Look to the future to explore the broader impact of climate change on wildfire risk.
Explore the CoreLogic 2024 Wildfire Risk Report to gain a deeper understanding of wildfire risk so you more effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from devastating events.
CoreLogic remains committed to providing data and tools to help navigate the intricacies of wildfire risk to help ensure that communities and industries are well-prepared to withstand and recover from wildfires.
CoreLogic 2024 Wildfire Risk Report
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