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How Insurers Can Improve Wildfire Risk Evaluations

Wildfires pose significant challenges to insurers. New, expensive homes built in areas encroaching forests, drier weather and the bark beetle infestation are among the factors that have increased the risk of wildfires. According to Pitney Bowes’ Lamont Norman, a fire …

Scientists Sorting Out Beetle-Fire Relationship

Inside university laboratories and government research facilities across the country, scientists are playing with dozens of variables – mixing and matching and rearranging – to gain a better understanding of what makes wildfire go. They’re busy building computer models as …