From forest to front door: Understanding how wildfire spreads through communities

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Jun 5, 2026, 8:20 am182 ptsTrendingTop
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…

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