Study: Wildfire costs have worsened

Wildfires cost $54 billion in direct insurance losses in 2025, more than any other year, according to a study led by the University of East Anglia published on Sunday. Perhaps $100 billion more was incurred in indirect losses from the Los Angeles wildfires alone. Wildfires also caused 90 deaths and the evacuations of 300,000 people throughout North America, Europe and South Korea last year. The study’s authors used that information as an opportunity to call for the reduction of fossil fuels; however, the Bible warns in Matthew 24 that severe environmental disasters are a sign of the end of the age.