Study: Williams-area wildfire, flooding could cost $694 million

  • Source: Arizona Daily Sun
  • Published: 05/16/2018 06:09 AM

The financial impacts of a catastrophic wildfire and post-fire flooding on Bill Williams Mountain could dwarf those of the 2010 Schultz wildfire and subsequent flooding. That’s according to a new study out of Northern Arizona University that estimated potential damages of between $379 million and $694 million if both fire and flooding hit the mountain just south of the city of Williams. The total financial impact of the 15,000-acre Schultz fire and post-fire flooding was estimated to be between $133 million and $147 million.



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