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risk associated wildfire in the burn probabilities are going to double over the next 30 years. double over the next 30 years the threat of wildfire especially here in the bay area will only get worse abc 7 news reporter leslie brinkley explains new data this and where the increased fire risk is especially troubling. the first street foundation just released a first of its kind of analysis of the wildfire risk for individual properties nationwide creating hundreds of millions of simulations using data on local topography climate metrics and building footprints. we focused our met rics average the risk associated with wildfire in the burn probabilities are going to double 30 years as wildfires grow in terms of the area they cover and intensities of those wildfires and they re going to distribute more embers, which just opens up the reach of the actual wildfire exposure in the bay area. the steepest increase in risk was in marin napa and most noticeably in sonoma county ac ....