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Todd Woody

Reporter · US

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Aug 20, 2026
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  1. Article · Aug 20, 2026 · Todd Woody

    California Adopts Weaker Home Protection Rules as Wildfires Grow (opens the original)

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    A California agency on Wednesday approved long-delayed regulations designed to protect homes from wildfire, but they’re less stringent than defenses recommended by scientists and firefighters. The new rules, which apply to about 2 million homes, were mandated by a 2020 state law requiring residents in high-risk wildfire areas to establish an ember-resistant perimeter by removing vegetation and other combustible material within five feet of a dwelling. Scientists say that space, known as Zone Zer

  2. Article · Jul 28, 2026 · Todd Woody

    Japanese company bets on water-from-air tech to help water-starved areas in California (opens the original)

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    The climate-driven water crisis is becoming a housing crisis as builders increasingly struggle to secure sufficient water supplies for new residential developments. Now Japanese water infrastructure company Kubota Corp. aims to provide developers of suburban subdivisions with an unlimited source of water through a technology that extracts H2O from the air. In a deal announced Tuesday, Kubota is buying atmospheric water harvesters made by Delaware-based AirJoule LLC to be initially deployed in Ca

  3. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Todd Woody

    Californians are subsidizing mansion wildfire insurance as FAIR risk explodes (opens the original)

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    As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel-Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear could bankrupt the program and undermine the private market. Nine ZIP Codes out of more than 1,700 in the state account for about 7% of the FAIR Plan’s liability exposure, or $44 billion as of September 2025, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of

  4. Article · Jul 22, 2026 · Todd Woody

    Luxury Homes Are Raising Risks for California FAIR Plan (opens the original)

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    As California’s wildfire insurance crisis drives homeowners to the state’s insurer of last resort, wealthy areas such as Beverly Hills, Malibu and Bel Air make up an increasingly large portion of the liability exposure — a dynamic that experts fear could bankrupt the program and undermine the private market. Nine zip codes out of more than 1,700 in the state account for about 7% of the FAIR Plan’s liability exposure, or $44 billion as of September 2025, according to a Bloomberg News analysis of

  5. Article · Jul 7, 2026 · Todd Woody

    Faster, Fiercer Wildfires Are Testing Evacuation Plans (opens the original)

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    On a warm summer morning, two fire officials navigate an SUV along a narrow road that switchbacks high into the hills above the town of Fairfax, California, where thickets of trees conceal hundreds of homes. When the road dead-ends, they head back down through the same hairpin turns, pointing out where a wildfire would roar into the path of fleeing vehicles. “Most communities were not designed to accommodate every resident evacuating simultaneously,” said Dan Mahoney, chief of the Ross Valley Fi

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