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How about the rest of the eastern US? Billion dollar climate disasters are hitting everything, not just coastal cities in Florida and WUI towns in California. There was just massive flooding in Tennessee due to Hurricane Helene - are they at fault for living in "hurricane country"?

Climate related disasters are intensifying everywhere. What's now "inevitable" may have been unthinkable when some of these folks moved there.

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Tennessee? The one with the famous river valley that used to catastrophically flood pretty regularly?

How about Asheville NC then

Californias only serious risk is the big one earthquake, but that could hit anywhere on the west coast.

West coast best coast.

And wildfires in many areas.

the wildfires could be mitigated by controlled burns but knowing the gov in California, it'll never happen.

eventually seismic activity will pick up too.

The other problem is the government can’t force controlled burns on private property. And there’s a lot of private property.

I almost lost my fire insurance last year because my neighbor doesn’t keep his property up, for decades. The agent initially rejected my renewal due to pictures taken from an inspection they did that showed a ton of downed trees but they were across my property line.

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