“Coming into town, that is when you realize the devastation … Ninety-five percent of the town burned. That was the thing that was strange,” he said. When they returned to their home five months later, all that remained was a “pile of ash and the chimney,” James Holden said. Only several thousand of the 27,000 residents chose to remain and rebuild.Īfter the family barely escaped the flames in cars, they lived in their trailer on a friend’s property, then in their church parking lot. The 2018 blaze in the Sierra Nevada foothills destroyed 19,000 structures and killed 85 people. The Holdens lost everything in the Paradise fire, joining thousands who never returned. Another Paradise family also chose Vermont. Communities close to Canada - such as Cincinnati, Duluth, Minnesota, and Buffalo, New York - are popular landing spots.
families heading to cooler destinations not touched dramatically by climate change. While little data exists documenting this phenomenon, there have been reports of U.S. “But regions, counties and cities need to work to plan for the population change, combined with the impacts of climate change, that they will see.” “I think that the interest in climate havens is fundamentally about hope - wanting to have a safe place to escape the worst impacts of climate change,” said Nicholas Rajkovich, an associate professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo. But with disasters piling up, some residents in hard-hit areas are concluding that staying in the line of fire is no longer an option. Scientists warn it’s hard to blame climate change for any single event.
since 2011 - with 688 people dying in 20 climate and weather disasters with a combined cost of at least $145 billion. One found that 2021 was the deadliest year in the contiguous U.S. Several reports earlier this year highlighted the trend. She ticked off the area’s perks - rock climbing, gymnastics and a climate that’s “not burning hot.”įamilies are increasingly factoring climate into a move as temperatures and climate-induced disasters rise. “I felt excited to go to a new place and be out of the fire place,” said 10-year-old Soraya Holden, one of five children, as she walked alongside the family’s herd of goats behind an old dairy barn. The family bought 192-year-old Valley Acres Farm with 237 acres (96 hectares) of forest and meadows.
The couple, both 40, loved the small-town feel and open space that reminded them of Paradise.Įllie’s husband James found an engineering job.
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Even Idaho, Montana, everywhere they were having droughts.”ĮDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of an ongoing series exploring the lives of people around the world who have been forced to move because of rising seas, drought, searing temperatures and other things caused or exacerbated by climate change.Īfter two years renting a house in upstate New York, the family found its way to Proctor, Vermont - a town of fewer than 2,000 near the Green Mountain National Forest that was once known as the marble capital of the world. “As you are looking at a map of the United States, you can basically put an X through the whole western part of the country. “When you are left with nothing, you start thinking ‘I don’t want to go through anything like this again,’” Ellie Holden said. So they started looking farther afield for a place that, unlike California, did not seem under constant threat from wildfires, droughts and earthquakes. It proved too daunting to rebuild in a town that looked more like a deserted war zone than the tight-knit community they loved. The family of seven couldn’t find anything nearby to replace their house reduced to ashes in the 2018 Paradise fire. (AP) - Weeks after surviving one of the deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California history, the Holden family just wanted a new home.
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