Insurance Companies Are Bailing on California Because of Wildfires

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  • Author: Nathanael Johnson
  • August 21,2019

This story was originally published by Grist and appears here as part of an ongoing collaboration.

California is facing yet another real estate-related crisis, but we’re not talking about its sky-high home prices. According to newly released data, it’s simply become too risky to insure houses in big swaths of the wildfire-prone state.

Last winter when we wrote about home insurance rates possibly going up in the wake of California’s massive, deadly fires, the insurance industry representatives we interviewed were skeptical. They noted that the stories circulating
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