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The issue here is the wealthy lobbying to lower fire risk areas in order to build more houses and not have to follow expensive building codes.
Houses burn faster than forest, so these new houses catch fire more easily and dominoes into areas that were traditionally safe also catching fire. Like the outer ring used fire proofing techniques, the new expansions didn't have to, and they burnt more than forest would, meaning the old houses with the fire proofing techniques didn't have enough anymore.
The recent expansion in the Palisades for 100 million dollar homes just burnt down working classes neighborhoods.
Don't get tricked into blaming it on anything else except climate change as an overall factor.
It was rich people not caring about anything other than money, trickling down to fuck over regular people.
I disagree with your premise that this is all evil corp. The fact is that demand drives housing. Someone is going to buy and build on that property. Full stop.
I am not aware of any fire proofing techniques for homes in a situation like this. References please.
As mentioned above, we've had nearly 100 years of fire suppression practices that kept fuel from burning. I'm not sure how else to mitigate the properties other than clearing all trees and bushes. I don't think it would help in this situation.
I agree that climate change is a problem and a contributing fsctor.
They weren't able t before because of the fire risk rating...
Which the rich lobbies to change so they could build mansions there, land that was cheap because of that rating.
The existence of those homes that also skipped fire safety regulations due to the lowered raring caused hotter fires to burn the houses on what used to be on the boundary to have their fire safety measured made insufficient.
And the rating was changed less than a decade ago...
Which is why prior methods proved insufficient...
I dunno man, I can't think of a simpler way to put it.