"Weeks later, another house in the exact same spot was burning - again in the name of science. That home went up in flames slower because it was fortified with better materials."
"The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety is a nonprofit created by insurers to make houses and other buildings more resilient. The institute's 100-acre site in Richburg, South Carolina, started to study hurricanes and heavy wind and rain."
"From 2016 to 2025, wildfires in the United States on average burned an area the size of Massachusetts each year, slightly more than 11,000 square miles. That's 2.6 times the average burn area of the 1980s."
Wind-driven flames can rapidly engulf homes, but using fortified materials and strategic landscaping can mitigate wildfire risks. Research in South Carolina involves burning houses to study fire behavior and resilience. The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety conducts experiments to improve building resilience against wildfires. Wildfire damage has escalated significantly, with areas burned in the U.S. increasing dramatically since the 1980s. The institute aims to develop better construction methods to withstand these growing threats.
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