"Following the deadly Esperanza wildfire in Southern California in October 2006, in which five U.S. Forest Service firefighters were killed, a task force recommended tougher zoning and code enforcement to limit development in the mountain forests considered high fire hazard zones. Yet within a year of those recommendations, Riverside County supervisors gave the go-ahead to a 150-home, upscale development in a small mountain community that burned in Esperanza.
Startling connection between property value and city's health
Using the data she collected, Van Dyke has included a slide-show of the 50 highest-valued homes in Topeka's county and a database to search residential properties with a map of the highest property values in the Topeka and surrounding areas.