Good morning. [See our map of fires burning across California.] This question isn’t new, and neither are many of the answers experts and policymakers routinely offer. For one, they say, too many people are moving into the wildland-urban interface, the transitional zones between denser areas of human development and vegetation, which makes them more vulnerable to damage in the event of a wildfire. The solutions to that problem, however, are as complex as the countless reasons people are moving into such areas — not least of which is the state’s housing crisis, pushing Californians farther outside of big cities.

Source: New York Times August 26, 2020 12:45 UTC