The devastating fires that ravaged for more than three weeks the Los Angeles County last January caused real estate losses that could exceed 30,000 million dollars, according to an analysis published this Friday by Los Angeles Times.
The report, which compares the evaluations of the Fire Department of California (Calfire, in English), estimates that government agencies could suffer economic damage of 61 million dollars or more a year while rebuilding the areas affected by the fires of Palisades and Eaton, the two most virulent spotlights.
The fires destroyed structures in 56% of all the properties that make up the wealthy neighborhood of Pacific Palisades, while almost half of the properties in Altadena, the most affected by Eaton’s flames, were reduced to ashes, added the Times.
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Among the more than 16,000 structures affected by the fires were at least 79 single -family houses valued at more than 10 million dollars in this neighborhood, while more than 2,400 homes in Altadena estimated above 1.5 million dollars, the document said.
Although the study estimates losses of 22,000 million dollars in Palisades and another 7.8 billion dollars in Altadena in homes classified by the authorities as “destroyed or damaged by up to 50%”, this data is only a fraction of the total cost of the worst disaster of forest fires of the region, estimated at up to 272 million dollars.
The fire wave, which began on January 7 and took more than three weeks to complete complete Natural more expensive.
With EFE information
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