Climate Havens' Origins Questioned

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The Origins of the Climate Haven Myth

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After Hurricane Helene dumped 2 feet of rain on western North Carolina , many major media outlets marveled at how Asheville , which had been celebrated as a climate haven, had been devastated by a climate-related disaster.

Some in the media later reported accurately that climate havens do n’t actually exist.

But that still raises the question: Where did this climate haven concept even come from?.

Climate risk is a complicated equation that complicates the already difficult and complex calculus of buying a home.

It’s almost fitting that Zillow and Redfin are doing the work to show that climate risk is not binary.

There are no homes completely free of risk for the same reasons that there's no such thing as a perfect climate haven.

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