Austin City Council is set to vote Thursday on an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due ...

Weeks after deadly fires swept through Los Angeles County, the state regulator in charge of overseeing utility companies declined a request that would have required California’s largest utilities to ...

In 2023, 481 homeowners insurance policies were canceled or non-renewed due to wildfire risk — an 82% increase compared to ...

All told, the size of orange and red patches on the new maps is 3,626 square miles — an area nearly twice the size of ...

Cal Fire’s hazard maps are referenced in over 50 sections ... a 2020 law required Cal Fire to create regulations for Zone 0 by the start of 2023. That never happened. After the January L.A ...

homeowners living in areas that are at a high wildfire risk face stricter building codes and must reduce vegetation on their properties. A 2023 provision does not allow insurers to use the maps to ...

Two Oregon lawmakers are calling on major insurance companies to stop using their own internal wildfire risk maps to drop ...

The current WUI map puts 38% of the city at risk of wildfire damage, according to a January city presentation ... The average home insurance premiums in Texas jumped from $1,961 in 2019 to $2,803 in ...