The wildfires in the Los Angeles area have burned more than 30,000 acres and destroyed thousands of homes since starting on January 7th. With tens of thousands residents displaced, could Las Vegas see even more Californians moving here? Co-host Dayvid Figler asks UNLV economist Nicholas Irwin how much pressure this could put on our strained housing market and what Las Vegas could do to prepare.

As houses continue to burn in Los Angeles, officials have already started talking about rebuilding the city. “We’re going to rebuild this remarkable community and we’re going to come back,” California governor Gavin Newsom said in a call with President Biden on January 10. Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass added her own call for action. “We’re going to recover, and we’re going to rebuild and we’re going to rebuild better.”

Wildfires continue to devastate Southern California, with the Los Angeles Times reporting today that a “particularly dangerous situation” warning is once again in effect for areas of Los Angeles and Ventura counties. At least 25 people have died.

Places in the west that are especially at risk to wildfire destruction are Urban Wildland Interfaces (UWI) — transition zones between unoccupied and urban land.

People are increasingly moving into the wildland-urban interface areas, where human development meets wild vegetation, like forests, according to a University of Nevada-Las Vegas expert. Such landscapes are also notorious for wildfires.

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The fires in Southern California have burned in largely urban areas, which could have an impact on how home insurers work.

As the battle against several Southern California wildfires continues to rage on, one expert told me the impact could be seen far outside the fire path, and even here in our valley.