Angora Fire Recap & New Wildfire Resource Section
According to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, the Angora, California wildfire near Lake Tahoe in late June destroyed 242 residences and 67 commercial structures and damaged an additional 35 residences.

Overall, the outlook for the 2007 wildfire season doesn't look good. The U.S. Drought Monitor has reported that half of the U.S. is either abnormally dry or has drought conditions. For people who write brush policies in AZ, CA, CO, ID, MT, NM, NV, OR, SD, UT, WA and WY now is the time to review your brush exposure, in order to ensure proper pricing of policies and to limit your wildfire risk.

New Wildfire Resource Area
CDS has compiled many different maps and information over the years. We're now trying to make more of this information available to our users through new resource pages. Our idea is to have a page on each report, as well as other topics like geocoding and batch processing. We have started with resource pages for Wildfire and Storm Surge. On the wildfire page, you will find a map showing the Angora fire overlaid on the CDS wildfire model, which shows how well we predicted the fire. In addition, there are additional maps showing our performance in some of the largest fires in the past few years. To access this page and the burn maps: http://www.riskmeter.com/riskmeter/wildfire_downloads.htm

Wildfire WebEx Training
Twice a month CDS offers complimentary Online training on how to use and interpret our Wildfire Model. For those of you who are interested, the CDS Wildfire Model is covered in our Western Risks WebEx presentations. To view our upcoming WebEx schedule, please go to: https://cdsys.webex.com

To view the entire newsletter, please go to: http://www.riskmeter.com/RiskMeter/newsletters/RiskMeter_July07.htm