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Housing and Economic Recovery as Interdependent Pathways in the Wake of Wildfires

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Highlights

  • Introduced an integrated housing-economic recovery framework that links post-wildfire housing stability to local employment conditions and economic diversity.
  • Demonstrated how traditional vulnerability tools like SoVI overlook hidden and dynamic vulnerabilities, especially among renters, seasonal workers, and undocumented residents.

Modeling Neighborhoods as Fuel for Wildfire: A Review

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Wildfire’s destruction of homes is an increasingly serious global problem. Research indicates that characterizing home hardening and defensible space at the individual structure level may reduce loss through enriched understanding of structure susceptibility in the built environment. However, improved data and methods are required to accurately characterize these features at scale.

Patterns and trends of heat and wildfire smoke indicators across rural–urban and social vulnerability gradients in Idaho

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Climate change poses a grave threat to human health with disparate impacts across society. While populations with high social vulnerability generally bear a larger burden of exposure to and impact from environmental hazards; such patterns and trends are less explored at the confluence of social vulnerability and rural–urban gradients.

Roof renewal disparities widen the equity gap in residential wildfire protection

Year of Publication
2025
Publication Type

Wildfires are having disproportionate impacts on U.S. households. Notably, in California, over half of wildfire-destroyed homes (54%) are in low-income areas. We investigate the relationship between social vulnerability and wildfire community preparedness using building permits from 16 counties in California with 2.9 million buildings (2013–2021) and the U.S.