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Florida Facing Wildfire Risks?

CDS Business Mapping, a provider of online hazard mapping, has added a Florida Wildfire report to its RiskMeter Online natural hazard risk report service. The company said that by simply typing in an

By Eric Gilkey | Updated on December 04, 2007

CDS Business Mapping, a provider of online hazard mapping, has added a Florida Wildfire report to its RiskMeter Online natural hazard risk report service. The company said that by simply typing in an address, RiskMeter’s wildfire report will return a property’s proximity to fire risks as very low, low, medium, or high.

“Although the California wildfires have garnered much attention from the media, the state of Florida is facing a wildfire predicament as well,” said Dan Munson, founder of RiskMeter Online, in a release. “The combination of a warm climate, new housing developments being built in wildland areas, and overburdened firefighters have increased insurers’ vulnerability to wildfire losses.”

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