It is not incompetence, it’s intentional and hence malice. 

It’s the exact same playbook used in Lahaina and North Carolina. Destroy area using manufactured weather events, then prevent access and help to the area. Finally, take control of the area, buy people out. 

In Lahaina, people who lost their homes were paid $700 per home. In NC, the governor said that they will not rebuild some areas at all (there’s valuable Lithium repositories).