What insurance data reveals about how bad wildfires are getting

What insurance data reveals about how bad wildfires are getting

Jasper, Lytton, Los Angeles, Fort McMurray — the last few years have been filled with unprecedented fire disasters, taking lives and destroying communities and economies.

Now, scientists have the data to show how these societally destructive wildfires — ones that kill people and cause huge financial losses — are growing all across the world and are becoming much more common because of climate change.

"I think for wildfires in many environments, it's not a question of if a fire is going to happen, it's more about when it's going to happen," said John Abatzoglou, co-author of the study and professor at the University of California Merced.

The sweeping assessment, published on Thursday in the journal Science, relied, in part, on p

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