Chico Tries to Balance Housing Needs With Fire Risk
Like many California communities, Chico needs to build more housing to accommodate its growing population. But there’s a problem: much of the area is a tinderbox.
Like many California communities, Chico needs to build more housing to accommodate its growing population. But there’s a problem: much of the area is a tinderbox.
Chico is grappling with a housing crisis exacerbated by an influx of Camp Fire victims.
Research has shown that people vastly underestimate their vulnerability to wildfires. The large number of devastating blazes in California over the past several years has lifted the veil.
At least twenty-four people are dead and many others missing as wildfires continue to ravage California.
Hundreds of wildfires have now burned over 1.5 million acres of land in Northern California. That’s equivalent to the entire state of Rhode Island.