Fewer than a dozen homes have been rebuilt since the Palisades and Eaton fires burned through Los Angeles one year ago, though hundreds more are expected to be completed later this year. Andrew Rumbach, a climate and communities expert at the Urban Institute, spoke with the Associated Press about how LA’s recovery timeline resembles Boulder County, Colorado’s following 2021’s wildfires. “Around the 18-month mark is when you start to see really significant progress in terms of going from handfuls to hundreds” of homes rebuilt, he said.

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