A growing number of Californians now live near wildfire danger zones as the state builds more homes to combat its housing crisis, according to a July 28 report by Chapman University.
Nearly 13 percent of the state’s population lives in areas “at-risk” for wildfires like those threatening structures and scorching thousands of acres in Northern California, the Bay Area, and near Yosemite National Park, according to the university’s science and engineering student researchers using U.S. Census data.
