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There is no US study looking at this, but an Australian study shows that while the value of property damaged by wildfire is on the rise, it is caused by more people and more houses built in high-risk locations. When the damage is adjusted for the number and value of houses at risk, the trend is not increasing—it is actually slightly, but insignificantly, decreasing.
False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet
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