野火造成的财产损失有多大?

全球变暖可能会使更多资金化为乌有

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根据华盛顿大学和美国林务局的计算,全球平均气温每升高 1 摄氏度,美国西部每年被烧毁的英亩数可能增加 400%、500% 甚至 600%。野火不仅破坏财产和栖息地,而且代价极其高昂。据为保险业进行研究的 保险服务办公室称,特大型火灾很容易造成超过 10 亿美元的损失。

 

以下列出了一些历史上损失最惨重的火灾。这些数字令人印象深刻,并且仅反映了保险财产损失;它们不包括灭火成本、企业停业、健康影响或环境破坏。


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地点

日期

成本

加利福尼亚州奥克兰火灾

1991年10月

26.87亿美元

加利福尼亚州雪松火灾

2003年10月

12.4亿美元

加利福尼亚州女巫火灾

2007年10月

11.42亿美元

加利福尼亚州老火灾

2003年10月

11.41亿美元

加利福尼亚州洛杉矶县火灾

1993年11月

5.59亿美元

Mark Fischetti has been a senior editor at 大众科学 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: 大众科学 Mind and 大众科学 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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