Climate change

California's governor previously prohibited price gouging for building materials and housing services after wildfires destroyed or damaged 12,000 structures.

The Palisades fire, stretched across an area larger than Manhattan and where the median home price approaches $4 million, has damaged or destroyed more than 5,000 structures.

Verisk and Moody's are the first two modeling companies to submit their models to the California Department of Insurance. A Verisk executive explained the functioning of their model and what insurers' options are.

A trio of blazes in SoCal have destroyed over 2,000 homes and structures in neighborhoods with average property values well above the national average.

American Forestry, a non-profit conservation group, partners with Travelers to promote proactive fire prevention methods for homeowners.

The average surplus premium to protect property this year was roughly $46,000 in the wealthy enclave and the situation is only likely to worsen as climate change ups the odds of destructive wildfires.

Homeowners in areas affected by Hurricane Sandy have already seen growth in their property values lag behind the national median.

As this year's natural disasters bring heightened attention to the cost and availability of homeowners insurance, servicers often find themselves caught in the middle when customers see premium hikes.

Half a million single-family and multifamily homes in Tampa Bay and Sarasota are at risk of storm surge damage, Corelogic's report said.

Total insured wind and flood losses are predicted to be between $10.5 billion and $17.5 billion, according to CoreLogic. Earlier estimates placed the cost of insured damages between $3 billion and $5 billion.

President Biden's initial disaster declaration made mortgage and other federal assistance available to residents across three Southeastern states.

A letter from several U.S. senators asked Director Sandra Thompson to follow the lead of her counterparts at other government-housing departments with similar rules already in place.

The analytics tool takes a look at geography and borrower activity to help pinpoint areas with high concentrations of loans at risk from natural disasters.

California homeowners could be required to pay a surcharge if the state's insurer of last resort is unable to cover losses from a catastrophic wildfire.

InnSure executive director shares how communities can combat higher rates and mitigate climate risk by taking control of their insurability.

Climate change is leading to an increase in frequency of catastrophic weather events, causing property damage and issues with homeowners insurance.

Nikitra Bailey, EVP at the National Fair Housing Alliance, says communities of color are more vulnerable to the impacts of climate change because of prior redlining practices. She explains that a HUD rule could make a big difference.

Western utilities and beyond are finding it prohibitively expensive, if not impossible, to insure against potential fire-related claims. The issue will become more pressing as climate change makes droughts more intense and frequent, heightening the chances of more destructive infernos.

Understanding the peril is important for both primary and secondary mortgage market pricing of loans and risk, experts in a panel to the Mortgage Bankers Association's Secondary Conference said Tuesday.

"Lax regulation and monitoring of property insurers makes Florida mortgage markets far more exposed to climate risk than people might think," said Parinitha Sastry, an author of a working paper by researchers at Harvard University, Columbia University and the Federal Reserve.