#economic-damage

#economic-damage

Wildfires tore through central Chile last year, killing 133 people. In California, 18,000 buildings were destroyed in 2018 causing US$16bn (A$24bn, 12bn) in damage. Portugal, Greece, Algeria and Australia have all felt the grief and the economic pain in recent years. As the headlines, the death tolls and the billion dollar losses from wildfires have stacked up around the world, so too have the rising temperatures fuelled by the climate crisis that create tinderbox conditions.