wildfire mitigation News
California Insurance Head Green Lights State Farm Reduction in Wildfire Discounts
State Farm has received approval to reduce the discounts it offers homeowners for wildfire mitigation in California. In addition, the insurer does not have to detail the wildfire risk factors that ...
California Landscape Design Contest Focuses on Reducing Wildfire Risk
A landscape design contest underway at the University of California, Berkeley, is expected to produce innovative, affordable ideas for homeowners emphasizing wildfire defense while preserving ...
Live Burn Demonstrates Value of Wildfire Mitigation
A recent wildfire demonstration highlighted how mitigation can thwart damaging fires from reaching homes. The live burn conducted in collaboration with the Insurance Institute for Business & Home ...
California Latest State to Use Beavers as a Way to Mitigate Water Issues, Wildfires
For years, beavers have been treated as an annoyance for chewing down trees and shrubs and blocking up streams, leading to flooding in neighborhoods and farms. But the animal is increasingly being ...
Risk Remains Despite Billions Spent Mitigating Western U.S. Wildfires
Using chainsaws, heavy machinery and controlled burns, the Biden administration is trying to turn the tide on worsening wildfires in the U.S. West through a multibillion dollar cleanup of forests ...
Biden Administration Unveils ‘Wildfire Crisis Strategy’ for Western States
The Biden administration on Tuesday unveiled a 10-year plan to treat and maintain millions of additional acres of forests in the western United States to reduce the severity of seasonal wildfires. ...
Drones Pulled Into Play to Help Fight Wildfires in U.S. West
In a grassy meadow outside Missoula, Montana, Jennifer Fowler eyes two drones high in the sky with weather instruments -- part of a program to see how drones can help to fight and monitor wildfires. ...
Calif. Wildfires Blackened an Area the Size of Delaware So Far This Year
California is poised to set an annual record it never wanted to break: the amount of earth scorched by wildfires. Blazes have already ripped through enough acres to blacken the entire state of ...