More People Moving In Than Out of Counties With High Catastrophe Risk August 9, 2024 Despite the dangers and expense associated with living in high-risk areas, large numbers of people are still moving to parts...
The Top 15 U.S. Metros with High Exposure to Wildfire Risk May 7, 2024 The number of wildfires per year is going down, but the increasing size and intensity of the fires is creating...
Growing Wildfire Risk Leaves States Grappling With How to Keep Insurers From Fleeing May 1, 2024 By Rebecca Boone Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news—their...
Delos to Insurers Shedding Wildfire Risk: Send the Homes to Us July 12, 2023 By Chad Hemenway About 6 million homes in the U.S. are considered uninsurable due to wildfire risk. The models at Delos Insurance say...
Wildfire Threat Becomes Tool to Fight California Home Builders July 18, 2022 By Michael Phillis and Suman Naishadham Preston Brown knows the risk of wildfire that comes with living in the rural, chaparral-lined hills of San Diego County....
Sunshine State Could See Higher Risk of Property-Destroying Wildfires May 17, 2022 Perhaps the rain from hurricanes can help extinguish the wildfires. That may be the only silver lining to computer modeling...
Californians Warned to Prepare for Brutal Heatwave, Fire Risk June 15, 2021 By Dan Whitcomb A heatwave already punishing parts of the U.S. Southwest on Monday was expected to move into California this week, prompting...
Fed Warns Climate, COVID Worsen Western States’ Economic Risk From Wildfires July 14, 2020 Wildfires threaten the economy of the western United States to a greater extent than the rest of the country, and...
Fire Expert: Dry Conditions Make Mount Rushmore Fireworks ‘Ill Advised’ June 15, 2020 The July 3 fireworks display planned at the Mount Rushmore National Memorial would be “ill advised” because of the abnormally...
Not All Homes in Wildfire Zones Are Uninsurable. Here’s How Insurers Can Tell. May 22, 2020 By Jim Sams Fire-risk scores now used by insurance underwriters can sometimes can make it challenging for homeowners to find coverage. Zesty.ai, a...