David Branccaccio

So that's one way forward on building in fire resistance.

And so you have approaches to affordability and to fire resilience at the same time.

Yeah, and what are they going to be like to live in, right?

Because there's this term, biophilic design, where you try to come up with designs that are in keeping with nature, use natural sunlight and are sustainable and so forth.

But I had a tiny—

This storybook cottage that looked like from the – I guess the kids on the street used to call it the fairy tale cottage.

And there are a bunch of these, several hundred in Altadena.

And so many of them were destroyed.

And some people are building them to look just like they used to look.

Mm-hmm.

Mary Brancaccio, whom I've been married to for coming up on 40 years here, her line really – I think about it every day.

Soon after the fire, she said, we had the perfect house for the last hundred years.

We want to build for the next hundred years.

So the new house has a few design elements that gently harken back to what we lost, but

So there's all sorts of ways to be tasteful and to be respectful of what came before, but still embrace new technology that has a better chance of surviving after a fire.

Hey, it's David Brancaccio, host of the Marketplace Morning Report.

It has been one year since the costliest set of wildfires in California history, U.S.

history, and by at least one calculation, the history of the world.

16,000 structures were destroyed, most of them homes.

I can quote your figures about insured versus uninsured losses measured in billions.