I thought the article was implying that people knew it was unwise to build anything more expensive or irreplaceable than a log cabin in a wood because one day a natural fire might catch nearby.
I have no idea if that’s true though. I guess there might be a lot of reasons why single houses don’t appear in the middle of woods - infrastructure costs for instance.
Makes sense. Roll out the government employees to save my home sort of thing. Stossell last night was interviewing a private fire fighting guy who says that his organization is paid up front and that the insurance costs then go down which pretty much pays for the rescue.