California’s new fire maps won’t push up insurance rates, industry says Despite a five-fold increase in state-designated danger zones, private carriers use their own risk templates for ...

According to the Democratic governor, the maps will expand the current wildfire building resiliency requirements in the state's high-fire hazard zones by 1.16 million acres, while the zones at ...

California's plan that provides insurance to homeowners who can't get private coverage needs $1 billion more to pay out claims related to the Los Angeles wildfires, the state Insurance Department ...

The fire hazard severity zone maps are like flood zone maps, and they don’t evaluate risk, said Cal Fire. These maps are intended to “drive local planning decisions, not insurance decisions." ...

OAKLAND (KPIX 5) -- As fires ravage California each year, more homeowners are at risk of losing their insurance. The fires across the region in recent weeks caused memories of the 1991 fire in the ...

What happens is people are already being relegated to secondary insurance products which don't have the same protestations that we have here in California," Lara said. That's what happened the ...

Steve Nielsen would not normally have considered himself a resident of California’s wildfire zone. But that ended in October 2017, when a fire swept through Coffey Park, his suburban Santa Rosa ...

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The new draft maps released Monday include Oakland, Santa Rosa and Northern California's wine country. All these areas have been affected by devastating fires in recent decades: the Tunnel fire of ...