Oregon Issues Insurance Emergency Order for Wildfire Victims September 23, 2020 The Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services’ Division of Financial Regulation has issued an insurance emergency order for people...
Few Resources, Old-Growth Forest Allowed Growth of California Wildfire September 23, 2020 By Christopher Weber A lack of firefighting resources in the hours after it was sparked allowed a fast-moving wildfire to make an unprecedented...
California Wildfire Threatening More Than 1,000 Homes September 22, 2020 By Christopher Weber A wildfire burning through brush and timber from the mountains to the desert northeast of Los Angeles threatened more than...
Utah’s Wildfire Costs Soar with Human-Caused Blazes September 21, 2020 Utah’s wildfire season has broken records for the number of human-caused fires and the costs to taxpayers. During a presentation...
Fire Weather May Improve for Pacific Northwest, No Such Luck for Tinderbox California September 18, 2020 By Don Jergler Rains may bring some reprieve to those suffering from massive blazes in the Pacific Northwest in the next few weeks,...
California Commissioner Holding Hearing on Homeowners Rates in Wake of Wildfires September 16, 2020 California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said today that he will convene an investigatory hearing in October in advance of initiating...
3 Reasons People Don’t Buy Homeowners’ Insurance September 16, 2020 By Patrick Wraight I recently learned about two separate times when families lost everything when their homes burned. These are tragic losses and...
Colorado Wildfire Destroyed 25 Residential Buildings, 54 Structures September 15, 2020 A month-old northern Colorado wildfire has destroyed 25 residential buildings and a total of 54 structures, the Larimer County Sheriff’s...
Bad Air From Western Wildfires Just Won’t Ease up September 15, 2020 By Sara Cline and Gillian Flaccus Relief from putrid, dangerous air spewing from massive wildfires across the West won’t come until later in the week or...
CalFire: 14K Firefighters on the Line at 29 Major Wildfires September 11, 2020 As critical fire weather conditions subsided, firefighters accomplished full containment on one of the many fires burning in the state,...