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WildfireScore App Offers Canadians Wildfire Risk Assessment: A New Tool for Homeowners

This podcast episode introduces WildfireScore, a new app that helps Canadians assess the wildfire risk to their homes. The app provides a simple score from one to five, using data similar to what insurers use for premiums. It considers factors like past fire history, cause of fires, and spread drivers such as steep slopes and windy weather. Users can purchase a detailed report forecasting odds over the next thirty years for twenty dollars.

The app is particularly useful for those in rural northern areas and cabin owners, as wildfires have been increasing in recent years. Provinces like British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan, and Alberta saw more land burned last year than the ten-year average. Nationally, fire crews handled five thousand five hundred eight blazes by November, one hundred sixty-one above normal.

Developers plan to add climate change scenarios and early alerts to the app, giving homeowners better tools to prepare and protect their properties.

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