Random Forests for Wildfire Insurance Applications
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Homeowners’ insurance in wildfire-prone areas can be a very risky business that some insurers may not be willing to undertake. We create an actuarial spatial model for the likelihood of wildfire occurrence over a fine grid map of North America. Several models are used, such as generalized linear models and tree-based machine learning algorithms. A detailed analysis and comparison of the models show a best fit using random forests. Sensitivity tests help in assessing the effect of future changes in the covariates of the model. A downscaling exercise is performed, focusing on some high-risk states and provinces. The model provides the foundation for actuaries to price, reserve, and manage the financial risk from severe wildfires. Address for Correspondence: roba.bairakdar@mail.concordia.ca
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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