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It's OK to build there as long as you acknowledge that fire is a natural inhabitant of any forest and over a 20-30 year period is likely to come for a visit at
by skmurphy 6y ago
It's OK to build there as long as you acknowledge that fire is a natural inhabitant of any forest and over a 20-30 year period is likely to come for a visit at least once.
- LeifCarrotson 6y agoMost of Michigan is forested. Less than 1% of Michigan has burned in the last 200 years of settlement: there's a ton more precipitation, plus it's under snow for four months a year, so fallen trees and leaves decompose in a couple years and don't increase the fire risk. My house in a Michigan forest has a very, very different risk profile from a home in a California forest. And California is a big state, I'm sure there are forests that have similarly low risk profiles.
- danans 6y ago> And California is a big state, I'm sure there are forests that have similarly low risk profiles. Well, there used to be. For example the coastal quasi-rainforest in Big Basin near Santa Cruz. But climate change appears to have pushed places like that into the burn zone. Nowadays even Olympic National Park, an area full of temperate rainforest, is experiencing wildfire. it seems like pretty much any forest area of California is at wildfire risk these days.