In recent history…..since these Monster Wildfires have begun, insurance companies are dropping accounts in wildfire areas. Just as they are in other areas prone to flooding, hurricanes,…. tornadoes, earthquakes? In the west, arid wooded areas …. that’s a lot of real estate. To get around that obvious dilemma, some insurance companies are requiring owners to have a secondary policy.
We came home one day last spring to someone in our barnyard. What looked like a medium sized tanker truck with 3 men inside. They were dressed in fire-fighting gear. Come to find out, they were our very own firefighters for the day. The property owners’ current policy on this property has to include this private company. They were there to protect the investments of the insurance company and the property owners. In the process – they protect our possessions inside the house.
Cuz that day high winds had, once again, ripped electric lines from a house and started a fire. They’d been battling it for hours and we’d been extremely reluctant to leave …being downwind about a mile from the fire. DRY conditions and WIND. ACK! But one of our elderlies was in the hospital and after driving to the fire location for intel directly from a firefighter blocking that road, we felt ok to leave for a couple hours. It was a very small fire and they had it surrounded [so-called ‘contained‘ ]. We came home to find this crew at our place ready to do fast fire mitigation and protect the house, mostly. They were not there to save our animals, etc. But hey….this sounded REALLLY good to us once we figured out WHO they were and WHY they were there.
I believe that’s the only way the property owners were able to get property insurance in our forested area. I think it’s very creative and a good solution….especially when we get benefits. Without this creativity, I think many homeowners are denied coverage for wildfire.
OldMtWoman …cuz the wildfire situation hasn’t NOT always been like this!
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OldMt Woman.