Does Priority Status Matter? Evidence from Wildfire Mitigation Funding in California

• In Event: The Politics of Risk Management

Brief Overview

We construct a tract-year dataset linking California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection wildfire mitigation activities between 2019 and 2025 to socioeconomic and environmental characteristics across Census tracts.

Authors

• Mark Nepf, University of Washington, Seattle Campus

• Cory Struthers, University of Washington

• Alison Cullen, University of Washington