Climate change greatly escalates forest disturbance risks to US property values by William R L Anderegg, Timothy Collins, Sara Grineski, Sarah Nicholls, Christoph Nolte

“…Here, we combine models for three major climate-sensitive disturbances (i.e., wildfire, climate stress-driven tree mortality, and insect-driven tree mortality), future climate projections of these disturbances, and high-resolution property values data to quantify the spatiotemporal exposure of property values to disturbance across the contiguous United States (US). We find that property values exposed to these climate-sensitive disturbances increase sharply in future climate scenarios, particularly in existing high-risk regions of the western US, and that novel exposure risks emerge in some currently lower-risk regions such as the southeast and Great Lakes regions. …”
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Expanding the coverage and accuracy of parcel-level land value estimates. by Miriam Gold, Seth Binder, Christoph Nolte

“…Nolte (2020) provides a county-by-county, parcel-level estimation approach that dramatically improves estimates of fair market value for undeveloped land across the contiguous Unites States. Much undeveloped land of conservation interest is under threat of conversion to agricultural use or is already agricultural. …”
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