Colorado wants to force insurance companies to help homeowners understand, mitigate wildfire risk
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would also require insurers to give customers an opportunity to appeal assessments of a property's wildfire risk, which can lead to increased costs and nonrenewals.
The measure is the legislature's latest effort to tackle the growing problem of rising homeowners insurance costs and nonrenewals in wildfire-prone areas of Colorado as climate change increases the frequency and severity of wildland fires across the state. The cost of property insurance in Colorado has become one of the fastest-growing household expenses, with premiums from 2018 to 2023, according to the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association.
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The models and scoring methods would be required to take into account a homeowner's work to mitigate risk on their property, such as removing vegetation to create defensible space for firefighters and using fire-resistant building materials, as well as community- and state-level mitigation activities.
Finally, insurers would have to take into account the state-level purchases of equipment to combat wildfires. Colorado has purchased - Colorado's only state-owned firefighting aircraft.
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