野火造成的財產損失有多大?

全球變暖可能會使更多資金化為烏有

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根據華盛頓大學和美國林務局的計算,全球平均氣溫每升高 1 攝氏度,美國西部每年被燒燬的英畝數可能增加 400%、500% 甚至 600%。野火不僅破壞財產和棲息地,而且代價極其高昂。據為保險業進行研究的 保險服務辦公室稱,特大型火災很容易造成超過 10 億美元的損失。

 

以下列出了一些歷史上損失最慘重的火災。這些數字令人印象深刻,並且僅反映了保險財產損失;它們不包括滅火成本、企業停業、健康影響或環境破壞。


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地點

日期

成本

加利福尼亞州奧克蘭火災

1991年10月

26.87億美元

加利福尼亞州雪松火災

2003年10月

12.4億美元

加利福尼亞州女巫火災

2007年10月

11.42億美元

加利福尼亞州老火災

2003年10月

11.41億美元

加利福尼亞州洛杉磯縣火災

1993年11月

5.59億美元

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大眾科學 for 17 years and has covered sustainability issues, including climate, weather, environment, energy, food, water, biodiversity, population, and more. He assigns and edits feature articles, commentaries and news by journalists and scientists and also writes in those formats. He edits History, the magazine's department looking at science advances throughout time. He was founding managing editor of two spinoff magazines: 大眾科學 Mind and 大眾科學 Earth 3.0. His 2001 freelance article for the magazine, "Drowning New Orleans," predicted the widespread disaster that a storm like Hurricane Katrina would impose on the city. His video What Happens to Your Body after You Die?, has more than 12 million views on YouTube. Fischetti has written freelance articles for the New York Times, Sports Illustrated, Smithsonian, Technology Review, Fast Company, and many others. He co-authored the book Weaving the Web with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, which tells the real story of how the Web was created. He also co-authored The New Killer Diseases with microbiologist Elinor Levy. Fischetti is a former managing editor of IEEE Spectrum Magazine and of Family Business Magazine. He has a physics degree and has twice served as the Attaway Fellow in Civic Culture at Centenary College of Louisiana, which awarded him an honorary doctorate. In 2021 he received the American Geophysical Union's Robert C. Cowen Award for Sustained Achievement in Science Journalism, which celebrates a career of outstanding reporting on the Earth and space sciences. He has appeared on NBC's Meet the Press, CNN, the History Channel, NPR News and many news radio stations. Follow Fischetti on X (formerly Twitter) @markfischetti

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