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A lot of people look at wildfire prevention and see the upfront cost. What they miss is how much worse the bill gets when prevention fails. California’s proposed 2026-27 budget already commits serious money to the problem, with about $5.3 billion for CAL FIRE, including roughly $2.2 billion from the General Fund, plus another $314 million for wildfire and forest resilience in the climate budget chapter. That is real money. But compared with the cost of a major catastrophe, it …