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Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by culi on Thursday January 09, 2025 @06:29PM (#42650924)
TIL! Thanks for the info. I didn't know there was an actually functioning state fire insurance plan. I guess all those news articles about insurers pulling out of California is political propaganda I fell for :/

Here's a link if anyone's interested https://www.insurance.ca.gov/01-consumers/200-wrr/California...

Re:LA wildfires force thousands to evacuate, NASA JPL closed by throwup238 on Friday January 10, 2025 @04:04AM (#42653955)
That propaganda isn’t entirely wrong. There’s a regulatory agency in California that controls insurance premiums and they’ve kept the insurers from raising rates to account for the real risks so insurers have been pulling out. CalFAIR is still available for everyone so it’s not a total shit show but with over 10k structures destroyed so far, we’ll see whether the state has to bail the program out.