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Wildfire risk and home insurance — the new market

Three years of carrier withdrawals and the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires changed the math on every California property pro-forma. Mitigation evidence is now what moves carrier decisions. This is the index of fire-risk insurance coverage on Satelife.

Aerial of Rancho Bernardo, California — intact homes next to destroyed ones after the 2007 Southern California wildfires. The block-by-block randomness that drives California underwriting
Source: FEMA, photo by Andrea Booher, October 31, 2007 — Rancho Bernardo, California after the Southern California wildfires. Via Wikimedia Commons (public domain).
400K+ California FAIR Plan policies in 2024 — up ~100% vs 2020
7 of 12 largest US carriers restricted or withdrew from California since 2021
SB 1060 in force 2025 — carriers must discount verified mitigation
Fire-risk insurance coverage

In this section — pages and reports

Related coverage

Across the Satelife wildfire-risk site

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