This Article Is About California Wildfires Affect Californians From Getting Insurance
The frequent California Wildfires is affecting homeowners to get homeowners’ insurance. Existing homeowners are experiencing skyrocketing premiums of their homeowners’ insurance. Many homeowners cannot get insurance after the California Wildfires.
More than 350,000 Californians cannot get business and homeowners property and casualty insurance after California Wildfires.
- As California Wildfires continue and become more common, the situation will become worse
- The California Insurance Commissioner is predicting much worse situation in the near future for Californians
- Homeowners are not too happy
- All lenders require homeowners insurance as a condition of funding a mortgage
- Insurance companies holding consumers hostage will affect home buyers and homeowners needing a mortgage
In this article, we will cover and discuss how the California Wildfires affect homeowners and homebuyers.
The California Wildfires Left Many Homeowners Without Insurance
California Wildfires is very common throughout the state.
- Areas affected by wildfires are affecting homeowners where the insurance company is cutting them off
- Many residents who were affected by the California Camp Woolsey Wildfire last year where 86 people died and destroyed over 18,000 parcels do not have homeowners
- Hundreds of thousands of residents in this area are without homeowners insurance
- Hundreds of thousands of homeowners are affected by not having homeowners insurance
- Mortgage companies do not care about these property owners not having insurance
They are pretty much saying good-bye to them and have nothing to do with insuring properties in high-risk fire areas.
What Experts Say About Liability Of Homeowners
Residents affected by insurance companies are complaining to the state to do something about this. More than 250,000 properties in this area are being affected.
Wildfires Are Affecting Many Homeowners
Homeowners Insurance has been difficult to insure by many Californians for years.
- However, it became more difficult and costly after California Wildfires became more common during the 2015 through 2017 seasons
- After the 2018 California Wildfires, more than 10% of homeowners lost insurance coverage
- This includes homeowners not affected by California Wildfires
- The 2018 wildfires were hands down the most devastating with over 103 lost of lives
- Over 2 million acres were affected by damage due to the 2018 wildfires
The current 2019 California Wildfires will not doubt further impact California homeowners.
How Not Having Insurance Affect Homeowners
The California Wildfires affect homeowners not being able to get insurance will lead to a downward effect on them.
- Not being able to get homeowners’ insurance and/or get renewals will plummet home prices
- This will affect towns and communities in affected areas by reducing tax revenues
- Insurance companies are already filing insurance rate hike requests with the California Insurance Commissioner’s Office
- Insurance premium hikes are supposedly substantial
- Insurance companies paid out over $26 billion in claims from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires
Experts warn that their homeowner’s insurance can triple or quadruple. It will not be uncommon for homeowners who have been paying $1,000 in homeowners insurance have their premiums go over $4,000 plus.
Options For California Homeowners
California homeowners who cannot qualify for reasonable homeowners insurance often buy insurance with “FAIR” plan. The FAIR plan is the last resort in getting insurance in the state. The FAIR Plan covers bare-bones coverage. It normally does not include coverages like theft, wind, water, and earthquake. This insurance plan has seen a 200% increase in policyholders since the California Wildfires of 2015 through 2018.
There is a lot of resentment between homeowners and the insurance companies. Insurance companies do not like losing money. Homeowners do not want to pay triple or quadruple the premiums they are currently paying. This is a developing story from Gustan Cho Associates Mortgage News.
