© 2025 NPR Illinois
The Capital's Community & News Service since 1975
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

What It Takes To Build Communities That Are Safe From Wildfires

After back to back years of destructive and deadly wildfires, California’s fire season has been relatively mild so far. There are just a handful of major fires burning now.

But Californians know that could change. One of the questions they are asking is: What would it take to build communities that are safe from fire?

Lauren Sommer (@lesommer) from member station KQED reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.