SAN FRANCISCO – The country has watched in horror as thousands of acres in and around Los Angeles burned this month . But while California may seem especially fire prone, fire experts warn that wildfire risk is increasing across the country – often in places residents might not expect.
“There are a lot of cities that share similarities with what happened in Los Angeles,” said Kelly Pohl with Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit research group in Montana that had done research on the cost of retrofitting homes to protect against wildfires .
Think Boise, Idaho. Salt Lake City. Amarillo, Texas; Reno, Nevada; and Oklahoma City, she said…