wildfire-prone areas News

Verisk Expands Wildfire Risk Service to 3 More States

Verisk Insurance Solutions has added Montana, Oklahoma and Wyoming to its FireLine wildfire risk management service. FireLine provides information to insurers to analyze wildfire risk at the individual address level. FireLine uses satellite data to assess the effects of the …

Crestbrook to Offer Wildfire Mitigation for High Value Homeowners

Crestbrook Insurance Co., an affluent market personal lines carrier, has launched Crestbrook Wildfire Solution Program in collaboration with Wildfire Defense Systems (WDS), an insurance wildfire loss prevention and response company. The Wildfire Solutions program offers Crestbrook’s homeowners policyholders access to …

Risk Ratings Weighed for Homes in Fire-Prone Areas in Colorado

A state task force is mulling a plan that would assign more than 550,000 Colorado homes in wildfire-prone areas a risk rating that would be provided to insurance companies. The task force also discussed plans for a fee on homes …