Reason Magazine
•Los Angeles zoning laws pushed people and homes toward fire-prone areas
Summary
Nutrition label
74% Informative
The Pacific Palisades , Altadena , and most of L.A. County abutted the surrounding hills in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) In 2005 , the Forest Service reported that California had 5.1 million housing units in the WUI .
Nearly 78 percent of residential land is reserved for single-family housing, according to a study published by the Othering & Belonging Institute .
VR Score
82
Informative language
85
Neutral language
23
Article tone
formal
Language
English
Language complexity
67
Offensive language
not offensive
Hate speech
not hateful
Attention-grabbing headline
not detected
Known propaganda techniques
not detected
Time-value
short-lived
External references
17
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/15/climate/california-fires-wildland-urban-interface.htmlhttps://www.usfa.fema.gov/wui/what-is-the-wui.htmlhttps://www.budget.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Mr.%20Nicolas%20Loris%20-%20Testimony%20-%20Senate%20Budget%20Committee3.pdfhttps://realestate.usnews.com/places/rankings/most-expensive-places-to-livehttps://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/14912https://www.fire.ca.gov/https://www.benefitsandpensionsmonitor.com/news/industry-news/los-angeles-wildfires-set-to-surpass-us-costliest-wildfire-record/390614https://x.com/BrianCAlbrecht/status/1877567249441026496?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweethttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_population_densityhttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-08/lack-of-water-from-hydrants-in-palisades-fire-is-hampering-firefighters-caruso-sayshttps://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/7804d89ed1094ccb9aae753228e8d89a/explorehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_areahttps://data-usfs.hub.arcgis.com/documents/7804d89ed1094ccb9aae753228e8d89ahttps://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-09/even-after-a-two-day-nightmare-l-a-girds-for-more-days-of-fire-weatherhttps://belonging.berkeley.edu/single-family-zoning-greater-los-angeleshttps://forests.berkeley.edu/research/past-projects/building-in-wildfire-prone-areashttps://www.nps.gov/samo/learn/management/2018-woolsey-fire.htm
Source diversity
14