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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>🔥 '''Wildfire insurance''' refers to coverage — typically embedded within a [[Definition:Homeowners insurance | homeowners]], [[Definition:Commercial property insurance | commercial property]], or standalone fire policy — that protects policyholders against losses caused by uncontrolled wildfire events, including structural damage, smoke damage, evacuation costs, and [[Definition:Loss of use | loss of use]]. While not always sold as a separate product, wildfire coverage has taken on a distinct identity in insurance markets as escalating [[Definition:Catastrophe loss | catastrophe losses]] in states like California, Colorado, and Oregon have forced [[Definition:Insurance carrier | carriers]] to re-examine their exposure management, pricing models, and willingness to write business in high-risk wildland-urban interface zones.<br />
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🌲 Carriers assess wildfire exposure through a combination of [[Definition:Catastrophe model | catastrophe models]], vegetation mapping, historical burn-area data, and property-level attributes such as roof material, defensible space, and proximity to fire-response resources. [[Definition:Reinsurance | Reinsurers]] play a central role in absorbing peak wildfire losses, and large-scale events — such as the 2017–2018 California wildfire seasons — have triggered significant [[Definition:Reinsurance recovery | reinsurance recoveries]] and reshaped [[Definition:Treaty reinsurance | treaty]] pricing across the property catastrophe market. Some [[Definition:Insurtech | insurtechs]] now use satellite imagery, real-time weather feeds, and [[Definition:Artificial intelligence (AI) | AI]]-driven risk scoring to offer more granular wildfire [[Definition:Risk assessment | risk assessment]] than traditional tools allow.<br />
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📉 The growing frequency and severity of wildfire events have made this one of the most contentious areas in [[Definition:Insurance regulation | insurance regulation]]. In California, regulatory constraints on [[Definition:Rate filing | rate increases]] led several major insurers to pause new [[Definition:Homeowners insurance | homeowners]] policy issuance, pushing more consumers into the state's [[Definition:FAIR plan | FAIR Plan]] as a market of last resort. This dynamic illustrates a broader industry tension: when [[Definition:Actuarial science | actuarial]] pricing cannot keep pace with climate-driven loss trends because of political or regulatory barriers, [[Definition:Insurance availability | market availability]] contracts, and [[Definition:Residual market | residual markets]] absorb risk they were never designed to carry at scale.<br />
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'''Related concepts'''<br />
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* [[Definition:Catastrophe model]]<br />
* [[Definition:FAIR plan]]<br />
* [[Definition:Homeowners insurance]]<br />
* [[Definition:Reinsurance]]<br />
* [[Definition:Wildland-urban interface (WUI)]]<br />
* [[Definition:Climate risk]]<br />
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