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#1 California Policyholders May Be On the Hook for Wildfire Losses
Sep 9 2024 // California homeowners could be required to pay a surcharge if the state’s insurer of last resort is unable to cover losses from a catastrophic wildfire. The California Department of Insurance sent a bulletin to...
#2 Western States Top Wildfire Risk Scores in New Analysis
Sep 3 2024 // California, Oregon, Colorado, Washington and Arizona are the states most at risk for wildfires, earning an “F” rating, according to a new analysis by Guidewire detailing wildfire risk in the U.S. at local,...
#3 Wildfire Risk Upends California’s Cannabis Heartland as Insurance Vanishes
Sep 18 2024 // Hannah Whyte is one of thousands of Californians who have struggled to insure their property in the event of wildfire. Her 77-acre farm nestled deep in a wildfire-vulnerable forest lost its coverage from State Farm after...
#4 Man Charged With Arson in Colorado Wildfire That Destroyed 29 Homes
Sep 16 2024 // A Colorado man was charged with arson after an investigation into a wildfire this summer that destroyed 29 homes and caused more than $30 million in property damage, authorities said. Jason Alexander Hobby, 49, was...
#5 California Commissioner Issuing Moratorium on Cancellations for Wildfire Victims
Sep 16 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara has identified areas in the vicinity of the several ongoing large wildfires in the state that will be protected by a one-year moratorium on homeowners insurance non-renewal or...
#6 Fast-Growing California Wildfire Threatening 35,000 Structures
Sep 9 2024 // A fast-growing wildfire in Southern California, has burned 27 square miles, forcing thousands to evacuate had is putting roughly 35,000 homes and buildings at risk. The Line fire near San Bernardino more than quadrupled in...
#7 Crews Slow Progress of Sierra Wildfire, But Evacuations Orders Remain
Sep 5 2024 // Firefighters battling a California wildfire that has burned through more than 5 square miles of the high Sierra made significant progress slowing its growth on Wednesday, but hundreds of residents whose homes are...
#8 Hawaii Probe Finds No Single Factor Led to Maui Wildfire Losses
Sep 16 2024 // No single factor led a fire in the seaside Hawaiian town of Lahaina last year to rage out of control and kill 102 people, according to a state report that assesses the government’s response to the disaster but not...
#9 Toxic Debris from Hawaii Wildfire Could Fill 5 Football Fields 5 Stories Deep
Sep 10 2024 // Hinano Rodrigues remembers being 4 or 5 years old, carrying a bucket across a highway to the ocean in the Maui community where he still lives. At dawn, he would accompany his grandmother to a reef at low tide, where she...
#10 Man Accused of Starting California Wildfire by Throwing Firework out Car Window
Aug 29 2024 // A 26-year-old man has been accused of igniting a destructive California wildfire in early July by throwing a firework from a car window during hot, dry and windy weather. Spencer Grant Anderson, of Oroville, was charged...
#11 New Southern California Wildfire Threatens Mountain Communities
Sep 11 2024 // A quick-moving wildfire raced toward Southern California mountain communities as authorities warned residents to evacuate. The Bridge fire exploded on Tuesday, burning into the Wrightwood community and nearby Mountain High...
#12 Wildfire Risk Harms California Home Values, San Francisco Fed Study Finds
Aug 27 2024 // California’s wildfires are weighing on home prices more than in the past, and insurance availability does little to help in areas considered to be at higher risk, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco...
#13 Another Fast-Growing Southern California Wildfire Forces Evacuations
Sep 10 2024 // A Southern California wildfire that broke out in Orange County’s Trabuco Canyon Monday has exploded to more than 8,500 acres overnight. By Tuesday morning, the Airport Fire had forced the evacuation of some homes in...
#14 Hawaiian Electric Raises Going Concern Doubts on Uncertainties Over Wildfire Settlement Financing
Aug 26 2024 // Utility firm Hawaiian Electric raised going concern doubts on Friday after disclosing that it did not have a financing plan in place for the $1.99 billion Maui wildfire settlement it reached earlier this month. The company...
#15 Southern California Edison Seeks to Recover $1.6B of Wildfire-Related Losses
Aug 29 2024 // Southern California Edison, a unit of utility Edison International said on Thursday it was seeking approval for a settlement agreement to recover nearly 60% of losses related to wildfires and mudslides in 2017 and...
#16 California Commissioner, Cal Poly Humboldt Working on Public Wildfire Model
Sep 17 2024 // California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara and Cal Poly Humboldt plan to form a strategy group to undertake what Lara says will be the nation’s first public wildfire catastrophe model. The plan is for the group...
#17 Judge to Ask Hawaii Supreme Court About Barriers to $4B Wildfire Settlement
Sep 4 2024 // The Hawaii Supreme Court will be asked to weigh in on an issue that threatens to thwart a $4 billion settlement in last year’s devastating Maui wildfires. Judge Peter Cahill on Maui agreed to ask the state high court...
#18 Insured Losses From Canada’s Jasper Wildfire Surpass C$880 Million
Aug 28 2024 // This summer’s devastating wildfire in Jasper, Canada resulted in more than C$880 million (US$653.4 million) in insured damage, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC), quoting data provided by Catastrophe...
#19 Update: Greece Battles Wildfires While Storm Lilian Crosses UK
Aug 23 2024 // Greek wildfire risks increased as temperatures climb and near gale force winds blow across the Aegean Sea, while Storm Lilian is battering parts of the UK. Firefighters, supported by helicopters, are trying to control an...
#20 Canada’s Wildfire Season Ranks Among Worst but Less Severe Than Feared
Sep 12 2024 // With summer drawing to a close in Canada, the 2024 wildfire season is shaping up as one of the most destructive on record, largely due to the devastation caused by a blaze that ripped through a tourist town in the Canadian...
