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From forest to front door: Understanding how wildfire spreads through communities
- June 5, 2026 at 12:20 PM
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As California's population boomed—from 10 million in 1950 to over 40 million today—the number of people living in fire-prone areas multiplied. Over the decades, millions of new homes and commercial buildings sprang up to accommodate the needs of the state's growing population, and many of those structures stand in areas prone to wildfires.
Originally published at Phys.org