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Home insurance costs are up 150% in one part of California. This map shows premiums by county (www.sfchronicle.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/california@lemmy.world

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Climate change is making insuring homes more risky — and more expensive. And in neighborhoods where that risk is the greatest, higher insurance costs are starting to eat into property values as well.

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[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

The problem with being at the edge of town is that your whole community needs to be resistant to embers blowing in. That requires both a ton of specific mods to older structures, as well as measures like clearing zone zero.