More Americans are moving into flood and fire hot spots
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Americans disproportionately move to fire- and flood-prone counties, but high insurance costs and climate change awareness may be shifting migration trends, per new data.
  • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    3 months ago

    The 51-year-old was aware it might be risky moving to a barrier island on Florida’s Atlantic Coast, where relative sea levels have risen more than half a foot since 2010, according to a Washington Post analysis of tide gauge data. But the condo in Satellite Beach had everything else Morman and his wife were looking for: Warm weather. A welcoming community. A price they could afford in a place where they could one day retire.

    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
      6·
      3 months ago

      Individuals do really dumb things when there are financial incentives to do them.

      It takes fixing those incentives.

  • bobs_monkey@lemm.ee
    3·
    3 months ago

    I moved into a CA mountain community almost a decade ago. We’re on fire watch constantly.