Perhaps the most interesting part of the article:

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    For some reason you made me think of banks being covered by government insurance. In a way you’d think the government would also insure land, seeing as that’s one of the main things they protect.

    The logistics would probably be horrible for that type of thing though.

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      Government can print money when appropriate and not abused. Payments directly to the general public are the best type of stimulus. Take a bad situation and make it a stimulus.

      Part two though has to be that they are not allowed to receive a payout more than once or make it illegal to build new construction in wildfire zones until they have figured out the forest management issues.

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        Practically everywhere is a wildfire zone though. Yes we need much more forest management, infrastructure hardening, fire resources, etc, but giving folks a one time payout and then they move to another area that gets destroyed and now they don’t get support doesn’t seem helpful since we can’t really predict what will burn. It’s simply harder than e.g. flood mapping.