While California’s wealthy have long been considered most at-risk from wildfires, new research suggests that lower-income communities experience such events most frequently. Wildfire managers typically use government hazard maps to identify at-risk wildfire zones, but the location of such zones and fire experience may have different effects on communities, according to the study, published in PLOS Climate on Wednesday. High-hazard communities tend to have higher incomes than low- and no-hazard communities, but populations with more frequent fires tend to have lower incomes than those with little to no such incidents, the study authors found. “Using this metric of fire frequency i
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