Lessons Europe can take from the California wildfires
Kumar Dhuvur, co-founder and chief product officer at ZestyAI, looks back at the 2025 California wildfires, and with more starting in Europe, suggests lessons that can be learnt to mitigate the risk before it gets out of control.
Europe’s wildfires should put to rest the idea that destructive fire is confined to places with long histories of losses.
Climate volatility is pulling wildfire into regions that never treated it as a
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