typically cost more than $5,800, while the cost of retrofitting an existing roof to be wildfire-resistant can exceed $22,000, for example, according to a 2025 report from Laura Hausman, a senior housing policy analyst at the Bipartisan Policy Center, a nonpartisan think tank, who cited 2018 estimates by Headwaters … Economics….
Transcript: Climate change is causing more extremely hot days in many parts of the U.S., and a recent report highlights the danger that heat can pose to rural residents. Grace Wickerson is with the Federation of American Scientists. She says many rural residents work outside in the hot sun. And according to the analysis by her group and the nonprofit Headwaters Economics, people in rural areas are more likely to have chronic diseases or other preexisting conditions.
Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit research group that works to improve community development and land management decisions, estimates that between 2005 and 2025, more than 132,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed in wildfires….
Headwaters Economics, a nonprofit research group that works to improve community development and land management decisions, estimates that between 2005 and 2025, more than 132,000 homes and businesses have been destroyed in wildfires.
Arizona doesn’t have a statewide wildfire building code. That’s according to a recent and accompanying map from the nonprofit thinktank Headwaters Economics….
That’s according to a recent report and accompanying map from the nonprofit thinktank Headwaters Economics….
The wildfire risk in Big Sky is greater than 96% of communities in the United States according to a tool created by the USDA Forest Service and Headwaters Economics, an independent research group that’s been studying wildfire for 20 years….
“We need all the tools in the toolbox” for combating wildfire risk, said Kelly Pohl, the associate director of the research nonprofit Headwaters Economics. “And that is going to include managing wildfires.”
Controlled burning runs on a knife-edge of risk….
However, a 2018 report by Headwaters Economics revealed that suppression accounts for only about 9 percent of the total economic impact of a wildfire….
He pointed to a California-based study conducted last year by Headwaters Economics, a Montana research institute, that concluded the cost of building new homes to high wildfire-resistant standards is only 2-3% more than traditional construction….
And fire suppression efforts account for just a sliver of a wildfire’s true cost — roughly 9%, according to a 2018 report by Headwaters Economics. Rebuilding infrastructure and rehabilitating landscapes must also be factored in….
And fire suppression efforts account for just a sliver of a wildfire’s true cost — roughly 9%, according to a 2018 report by Headwaters Economics. Rebuilding infrastructure and rehabilitating landscapes must also be factored in….
You can also see a great state-by-state writeup of the economic impacts of outdoor recreation from Headwaters Economics.
According to a report from Headwaters Economics, the cost of fire resistance upgrades can range from $2,000 to $100,000 depending on how comprehensive the retrofit is….
In 2023, Custer County, Headwaters Economics, and RESPEC partnered to launch the French Creek Flood Study, leading to a watershed-wide hydraulic structure inventory, updated flow frequency estimates and development of a 2D hydraulic model capable of showing where and how floodwaters move….
That’s not necessarily the case in central and southern Montana, she argued, adding that Headwaters Economics and other groups have demonstrated how public land supports the sizable economic footprint of the outdoor recreation industry….
Wildfires are a rapidly emerging threat and have been identified as the #1 fire risk to the United States. Fires are intensifying in size and scope; more homes are being built in fire prone areas, and entire communities and lives are being lost in a single incident. And this threat of catastrophic wildfire in Teton County is also increasing. According to Headwaters Economics, Teton County has a high risk of wildfire, higher than 84% of other counties in the U.S.
The operation began with just Waggoner and his wife, Kristina, but now employs 36—reflective of a recent economic study from Headwaters Economics that found that the Grand Staircase-Escalante region’s population rose by 26% as jobs grew by 51% from 2001 to 2022. …
Groups like Headwaters Economics have spent years building county-level analysis showing that recreation revenue exceeds extraction revenue across much of the rural West, including in many counties where the administration is fast-tracking lease sales for extractive industries….
According to Headwaters Economics, home hardening of new homes adds 2-3% to the cost of a house. When amortized over a 30-year mortgage, the cost is affordable, especially since it can significantly reduce the public and private costs of a wildfire….
