Issler, Paulo; Stanton, Richard; Vergara-Alert, Carles; … - Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics … - 2020
This paper studies wildfires in California from 2000 to 2018 using comprehensive merged dataon fires, mortgage and property characteristics, and weather. We find a significant increase in mortgage delinquency and foreclosure after a fire, but these effects decrease in the size of the fire,which...