Apt, Jerome; Epple, Dennis N.; Sowell, Fallaw - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
understanding and improving fire prevention. We demonstrate that eighty percent of the large year-to-year variation in forest area … burned in California can be accounted for by variation in temperature, precipitation, housing construction, electricity … transmission, and ocean surface temperatures in the North Atlantic, North Pacific, and Equatorial Pacific. California is of …