Worst Start to Wildfire Season Raises Alarm as El Niño Threatens May 12, 2026 By Joe Wertz Over the first four months of this year, more than 579,150 square miles was burned, according to the Global Wildfire...
California Governor Seeks Extension of FEMA Funding for LA Wildfire Victims May 11, 2026 California Gov. Gavin Newsom is asking the federal government to extend disaster assistance programs for thousands of victims of the...
California Taking Action Against State Farm Over LA Wildfire Claims May 4, 2026 The California Department of Insurance is taking action against State Farm over an investigation that reportedly shows the carrier has...
Maui Fire Lawsuit Payouts Are Near, but Few Will Break Even May 4, 2026 By Stewart Yerton Leslie Clark isn’t counting on money from the Maui wildfire settlement to help rebuild her family home near Front Street...
LA Fire Suspect Angry About No Date for New Year’s, Prosecutors Say May 1, 2026 By Patricia Hurtado Prosecutors said the man they charged with starting the deadly 2025 Palisades Fire in Los Angeles was upset about a...
Trump Says He’ll Probe Banks Over Response to LA Wildfires April 24, 2026 By Catherine Lucey and John Gittelsohn President Donald Trump said he would look into the actions of banks in their response to last year’s devastating Los...
Scientists Burn Homes to Figure out How to Best Protect Them in Wildfires April 22, 2026 By Jeffrey Collins and Seth Borenstein From 2016 to 2025, wildfires in the U.S. on average burned an area the size of Massachusetts each year—2.6 times...
Wildfire Survivors Could Face Another Blow From Taxes on Settlement Payouts April 22, 2026 Thousands of survivors of the 2025 Eaton Fire in Altadena, California, have elected to accept an upfront settlement from the...
IBHS Expands Wildfire Prepared Program to 10 More States April 15, 2026 Ten new states are now part of a new wildfire preparedness designation program designed to help homeowners and builders in...
California’s Surplus Lines HO Market’s New Phase Driven by Access, Not Wildfire Risk April 2, 2026 By Mikhail Gorshunov It’s been more than two years since I wrote an analysis based on Surplus Line Association of California insight and...