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I don't think I would want to return to a home in a hellish burn zone, with all of my neighbors gone.

• wongarsu 5y ago
  It's an interesting tradeoff. With large flooding events you are often better off with a destroyed house and an insurance payout than with an intact house surrounded by rubble and destroyed infrastructure. On the other hand saving the house preserves a lot of things of sentimental value. Fires are probably similar, even if they are not quite as destructive to all infrastructure
• LorenPechtel 5y ago
  Yeah. If I were going to build in a wildfire zone I would build a house engineered not to burn (yes, it's quite possible) but how much value is there if you come back to a house with the surround destroyed?
  • bradknowles 5y ago
    I’ll take not having my house burned down to the ground, over the alternative. I might still have a host of issues to deal with, but that would be a fantastic one to not be on that side of that equation.