High temperatures, low humidity, and a lack of rainfall has stoked more than 80 large fires across the Western U.S. and Canada this summer. An increasing number of homeowners are concerned.
CNBC reports that homes in the wildland-urban interface, the areas where the edges of suburbia and the wilderness converge, are at the greatest risk of wildfire damage.
The number of Americans living in the wildland-urban interface has doubled since the late 1970s, and 60 percent of new homes have been built in these areas since 1990.
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