August 6, 2024 Office of Recovery-West Maui will close Aug. 8; other agencies provide schedules n observance of the one-year mark since the Aug. 8, 2023, Maui wildfires, the Office of Recovery-West Maui in Lahaina Gateway will be closed on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. The office will open Friday, Aug. 9, for a condensed schedule from 8 to 11 a.m.…
August 6, 2024 A new center opens to assist Butte County fire victims Help for Park Fire survivors will be available in one place for a few weeks. The Local Assistance Center is here to help anyone with financial assistance, home rebuilding or even counseling. Fire victims can show up to the new local assistance center anytime between…
August 6, 2024 Fire recovery assistance center opens in old Chico 99 Cent store For the next two weeks, people impacted by the Park, Thompson, and Apache fires can visit a newly established local assistance center. The center, situated in the old 99 Cent store along Pillsbury Road in Chico, opened Monday morning to a long line of impacted…
July 1, 2024 First Steps After a Wildfire United Policyholders is a nonprofit organization that is a voice and an information resource for insurance consumers in all 50 states. UP has helped guide disaster survivors on the road to recovery since 1991. Use this information with The Disaster Recovery Handbook and Household Inventory Guide. …
June 23, 2024 As homeowner’s insurance prices climb, more Americans ask: Is it worth it? It was 2019 when Anjali Tierra decided that homeowners insurance wasn’t worth the price. The retired high school teacher, 58, took out a policy in late 2018 after purchasing a three-bedroom home nestled in the Tehachapi Mountains of southern California. She considered the insurance affordable…
May 24, 2024 Wildfires and home insurance: what Arizonans need to know At least 1.8 million acres have burned in wildfires so far in 2024, according to the National Interagency Fire Center ABC15 meteorologists are forecasting high winds and fire danger heading into the holiday weekend. Already this year, Arizona residents have seen the impact from one…
May 17, 2024 Boulder County Marshall Fire Newsletter – May 17, 2024 United Policyholders 2024 home insurance survey – Read more
April 2, 2024 Essential Know-How For Wildfire Insurance Policyholders The podcast episode features Amy Bach, the executive director of United Policyholders, an insurance consumer advocacy group. The host introduces Amy as an advocate for policyholders and discusses her background as an attorney. Amy shares her insights on insurance claims and the importance of policyholders…
February 5, 2024 Bach Talk: An insured future depends on bold public/private innovation By Amy Bach, Executive Director, United Policyholders So far 2024 has brought more bad news for property owners, public officials, lenders and home builders on the insurance availability and affordability fronts with non-renewals, scant options and high premiums. Front page news across the country. Rate…
January 25, 2024 Increase your resiliency in the new year… If you own a home, we suggest putting “make risk reduction improvements” on your New Year’s resolution list. Taking steps to make it less likely that severe weather or a wildfire will damage your home is more important than ever. Insurers have added new coverage…
January 4, 2024 KVNF Regional Newscast: January 4, 2023 Coloradans can now get thirty percent off the price of electric lawn and garden equipment. A new state law that took effect this week offers a tax credit to equipment retailers if they offer the discount to consumers at the time of purchase. Participating retailers…
January 1, 2024 Two years after Colorado’s most destructive wildfire, victims are still struggling with insurance claims It’s been two years since the Marshall Fire burned more than a thousand homes in Boulder County. On December 30, 2021, winds of more than 100-miles-per-hour propelled the flames toward a heavily populated suburban area south of Boulder. Two years on, many homeowners continue to…
December 28, 2023 Advice From A Fire Survivor: ‘I Learned A Lot’ Don’t rush into things, especially major decisions. You have plenty of time. I was a board member for Coffey Strong which was formed after our fire to help our neighborhood, Coffey Park, recover. I now work for United Policyholders, which is a nonprofit that has…
December 22, 2023 Crisis on the Availability and Affordability of Wildfire Insurance At the California State Association of Counties’ (CSAC) annual meeting in November, where I serve as the County’s representative, I moderated an informational panel titled “Fire Insurance Crisis: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going.” The panel included Deputy Commissioner of Community Relations and…
December 21, 2023 Supervisor Hall Leads Discussion on Fire Insurance, Emergency Planning Supervisor Heidi Hall took a leadership role at the California State Association of Counties’ annual meeting in November in Alameda County. She moderated the panel, “Fire Insurance Crisis: How We Got Here and Where We’re Going.” The panel included a representative from state Insurance Commissioner…
December 19, 2023 Urban wildfires may become more likely. A Modern West live panel discusses how to prepare. Urban wildfires in unlikely places are likely to become more prevalent as the climate warms, so homeowners across the American West should consider their immediate risk. That’s according to a panel of wildfire survivors and experts assembled for a Facebook Live event with Wyoming Public…
November 16, 2023 As wildfire risk increases in Bay Area, communities are building back better with new technology For many people in California, memories of recent wildfires are vivid and painful. The same can be said for construction consultant Ed Nessinger, who can recreate the terrifying moments from recent wildfires in Sonoma County in chilling detail. “So the last Tubbs fire, I was…
November 15, 2023 More homes in wildfire-prone areas means learning to live with fire Diane Moss has learned a lot of lessons from the 97,000-acre Woolsey Fire that damaged more than 300 structures, destroyed another 1,600, and left three dead in the Santa Monica Mountains in 2018. One of those lessons: Have a scanner radio so she and her…
