California to again protect insurance policies in fire areas
Several days of sporadic rain helped firefighters reach 60% containment on the
Sheriff's officials in both counties announced Wednesday they were lifting the last of the evacuation orders that during the fire's height kept some 11,000 people out of their homes.
California Insurance Commissioner
Lara ordered insurance companies to preserve residential insurance for one year for Californians who live near one of several major wildfires that have burned across the state in recent weeks.
“Wildfires are devastating even if you did not lose your home, so it is absolutely critical to give people breathing room after a disaster. This is not the time to be having to search for insurance,” Lara said in a statement.
The law was implemented in 2019, when more than 15 major wildfires burned homes across the state.
Scientists say climate change has made the West warmer and drier over the last three decades and will continue to make weather more extreme and wildfires more frequent and destructive. In the last five years,
Total containment of the 120-square-mile (310-square-kilometer)
Last week the blaze surpassed the size of the previous largest conflagration in 2022 — the McKinney Fire — although this season has seen a fraction of last year’s wildfire activity so far.
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