The unequal vulnerability of communities of color to wildfire
Fig 4
Vulnerability versus race/ethnicity for U.S. census tracts with moderate to very high WHP.
Regression lines are calculated at the 5th and 95th vulnerability quantiles, respectively. Vulnerability coefficients of variation (CV) for census tracts with the lowest/highest proportions of a particular race/ethnicity (≤ minimum + 25% and ≥ maximum—25%, respectively) are noted below each plots. Race “Other” includes those who identify as two or more races or a race not listed on the census form. As the proportion of Hispanics, Native Americans, Blacks, or Other increases in a census tract, the range of possible vulnerability scores for that tract becomes restricted to high values. Strikingly, vulnerability actually decreases as the proportion of White and Asian/Pacific Islanders increases.