April 9, 2025

42 thoughts on “California’s Home Insurance Crisis Worsens with Rising Flood Risk

  1. Southern Oregon here. Since the state of Oregon did there first wildfire assessments circa 2019 my homeowners insurance has increased 600%. It went from under $400/yr to $2,200/yr.

  2. Sean, I enjoy your sarcasm. News for reasonable people, right on the money. We have the same political views. Were similar back grounds. Born and raised in Seattle I graduated high school Burien Wa in 85 , worked in Bellevue and Issaquah. Lived in Snoqualmie. Moved to So Cal in 2001 Canyon Lake. Keep up the good work!

  3. Weather patterns? What a laugh. I remember the exact news reporting coming out of California in 1978. Same wildfires, same flooding, same landslides, as if California hasn't experienced all of the above since long before humans first stepped onto the continent. Until reality, and lack of insurance, hits home the rational solution of forbidding massively expensive construction of flammable real estate in high risk areas will be ignored. Humans in groups are very slow learners.

  4. I’m in So California and my house is 75 years old I’ve lived in it for 28 years, it’s just about paid off. My insurance has cancelled me because the house is not updated based on the electrical code. I have just had the house updated and a new electrical panel installed (now I can recharge an electric car at home) 🙄 I am waiting to see if they will re instate my insurance. Oh yea I’ve never made a claim in those 28 years of paying for insurance and it cost about $1200 -1500 per year.

  5. Flooding and mudslides do follow wildfires in southern California. This is normal for homes in certain locations. Where I live, wildfires cannot come very close. Therefore also, mudslides cannot happen here. Gentle slopes keep the water running off.

  6. I was a manager for a national restoration company franchise and I can tell you that cleaning a house after a flood is one of the dirtiest most uncomfortable jobs there is. Flood water is treated exactly like raw sewage requiring full hazmat protection. Essentially you are doing strenuous physical labor while wearing a rubber suit. Productivity falls down to a crawl because of the risk of heat stroke. Bottom line: it is EXPENSIVE as well as dangerous. This is reflected in the premiums. My heart goes out to the poor folks facing this future.

  7. This is a corruption issue, industries and corps buy politicians to have a free for all, the insurance industry is awful. We pay forever, only to be told they are not providing the product we paid for, but laws/rules are in place to force us to buy it

  8. These insurance co's will pass out these increases across their entire aggregate and we will all pay higher costs for homeowners insurance. They do it every year. These fires and floods are nothing new they have been happening for years.
    Blaming climate change is a hoax designed to steal more wealth from everyone. They know what they need to do to help control the fires with forest management as well as short term measures for mud flow prone hills after a fire to control the mud flows.

  9. In oregon, I live in a rain forest where it rains, sometimes up to 8 months a year, sometimes non-stop .no fires in 120 years. We got hit with a high-risk wildfire price of $4500 a year on our homeowners insurance and no guarantee of coverage next year ! Looks like it doesn't matter where you live anymore.

  10. This is why i refuse to purchase a home in 2025 . By renting, I can get insurance for water and fire. To include other natural disasters. But if you own the home, it is not possible without a high price tag, if at all. If you can pick and choose specifically what personal items you want covered, you can get a better rate.

  11. The city of Sacramento has an extensive levee system for the Sacramento and American rivers. If they ever have a breach in the levee it will flood the whole city as bad if not worse than New Orleans. The Corp. of Engineers inspects the levees ever year and now they are reporting that homeless people a digging into the levees making caves and shelters.

  12. Home owners insurance or government subsidized home insurance should be illegal.

    If no one is going to bail people out, maybe they'll stop building stupid things in stupid places.

  13. Flood insurance. It doesn't flood in California. You don't have typhoons or hurricanes.
    I'm in a US citizen living in Taiwan. I got out of California after directly graduating from college 21 years ago.
    I'm proud to be an American and I'm proud. But there's some serious freaking problems in blue States. I'm not saying red states are perfect but it's livable there if you have two incomes.
    It seems like the only way you can live in blue States is if two people are working and they're literally making $80 an hour together.
    Don't get me started on property taxes income tax and all the other hidden taxes.
    It's like every Western country in the world wants their people to live in complete and total poverty. I was 13 years old when I heard about the New world order in the great reset.
    If you don't know what that is quick talk to some Christians who are deeply informed
    Every book in the Bible that has talked about prophecy has been fulfilled for a living in Revelation at the moment it's being fulfilled little by little
    Only thing I can tell you is find Jesus and quick.
    The evil that is in this world it is no surprise to me at all.

  14. We have all the same stuff in Taiwan but it's affordable. I'm a US citizen I talk about this with my friends all the time and it's affordable. It doesn't cost you a kidney to pay your bills

  15. Floods, landslides, fires, earthquakes … and a government that fails to control/mitigate these natural disasters. The only thing missing is swarms of looters … oh never mind, they got that too

  16. Wonder if insurance companies weren’t so bloated and didn’t have prices hidden, many people could have insurance that worked well. Nowadays, it is just a ponzi scheme.

  17. Well, soon, the only people left in California will be the super rich and all the welfare resipants and illegal aliens. Everybody else won't be able to afford to live there.

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