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Firefighters monitor flames caused by the Hughes Fire along Castaic Lake in Castaic, Calif.
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The team, led by a Boise State University civil engineering researcher, looked at half a million wildfire starts, and hundreds of attributes about them. Beyond the obvious weather variables like wind speed, temperature and humidity, they also considered human factors like density of development.

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