California’s 2018 Wildfires Caused $150 Billion in Damages

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Dec 7, 2020, 2:56 pm90 pts
In 2018, California wildfires caused economic losses of nearly $150 billion, or about 0.7 percent of the gross domestic product of the entire United States that year, and a considerable fraction of those costs affected people far from the fires and even outside of the Golden State.

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