More than 4.5 million homes in the U.S. are at high or extreme risk of wildfire.
Considering there are about 114,800,000 households in the U.S., nearly 4 percent are at high or extreme risk of wildfire.
Verisk Insurance Solutions – Underwriting, a unit of Verisk Analytics, performed an analysis that shows California has the most homes—about 2 million—at high or extreme risk of wildfire.
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