Maybe you live in a city. Maybe you live in the suburbs. Or maybe, like writer Michelle Nijhuis, you live in the Stupid Zone -- at the bottom of an avalanche chute, on top of an earthquake fault, or in the middle of a floodplain, for example. Nijhuis lives on a hot, dry mesa in Colorado, which, with fires raging out of control throughout the West this summer, is the most newsworthy Stupid Zone of them all. When you live in the line of fire, she writes, you have to make some adjustments -- say, less attachment to your personal effects (especially the more flammable of them) and closer relations to your neighbors, not to mention a crash-course in fire-fighting. Read about life in the Stupid Zone, on the Grist Magazine website.