Van Bakel added that the concentration of assets that were exposed to the wildfire has impacted loss estimates because most wildfires are in boreal forests, where property is not densely concentrated ...

As a school committed to sustainability, it is crucial to educate students about the factors that made these fires so devastating.

The seasonal Santa Ana winds spread flames rapidly ... in the face of a systemic risk they were unable to absorb. Catastrophe bonds were born. The bond is a bet on a cataclysmic event like ...

“Here come those Santa Ana winds again …” You can hear the ... San Francisco earthquake of 1906 – a foundational American catastrophe. The internet is, as always, both boon and bane ...

will this catastrophe spark the intelligence and the anger in the hearts and minds of millions with the fierceness of the Santa Ana winds?

a wind gust away from potential catastrophe. Now, with the Palisades blaze and the nearby Eaton fire still mostly uncontained, renewed Santa Ana winds threaten to enlarge those blazes or even ...

Winds could threaten small signs of progress firefighters made over the weekend with the devastating Pacific Palisades Fire.

Santa Ana winds are expected to return to the Los Angeles ... since the fires began last week for their handling of the catastrophe, with many arguing they were not properly prepared as entire ...

The blazes are the result of a combination of suburban sprawl in fire-prone areas, fierce Santa Ana winds, dry conditions fueled by climate change and the limits of firefighting.

Fire experts, past reports and risk assessments had all anticipated a wildfire catastrophe to some degree ... unusually powerful and prolonged Santa Ana winds struck after months without ...

Santa Ana winds are infamous for driving fast-moving fires in Southern California, pushing embers well beyond a blaze's boundary and into neighborhoods and across major roadways. But officials say ...