Resilience is often measured as how fast you can recover from a catastrophe-and the deeper the wound, the longer it takes to heal.” “But it’s important to acknowledge that not all communities and their catastrophic events are the same, and the road to recovery can look drastically different. “There’s no denying a state like California is at severe risk for wildfire destruction every year, as seen in the ongoing Dixie Fire,” says Tom Larsen, principal, insurance solutions at CoreLogic. With a larger share of the local population displaced, and smaller volume of local resources available for rebuilding, Wyoming would need a longer recovery period than a more populous state would. In California, a wildfire of the same scale would destroy a smaller share of the housing stock. Examining the possibility of a “one in 50-year wildfire” event in each of the U.S.’s 14 wildfire-prone states-13 in the West plus Florida-CoreLogic has found that Idaho and Wyoming are the two states most at risk for a prolonged recovery from a wildfire incident.įor example, if Wyoming experiences a “one in 50-year” wildfire, it would lose an estimated 821 out of its 281,937 housing units, or 0.29% of the state’s housing stock. However, in this year’s data approach, CoreLogic examines property-related wildfire risk as well as reconstruction resource availability, temporary housing capacity, and community economic recovery potential. Ordinarily, California usually tops the list for wildfire risk on account of being the most populous state.

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