{"id":5368,"date":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wildfires-remain-major-threat-in-many-areas\/"},"modified":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T00:00:00","slug":"wildfires-remain-major-threat-in-many-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wildfires-remain-major-threat-in-many-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires Remain Major Threat in Many Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"40.891891891892\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  \n  <div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"31.243243243243\"><!--paging_filter--><p>About 4.5 million U.S. homes are at high or extreme risk of wildfires, according to the 2017 FireLine State Risk Report\u00a0released by Verisk <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/what-us-insurance-companies-offer-the-best-workers-compensation-insurance\"   title=\"Insurance\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Insurance<\/a> Solutions.<\/p>\n\n<p>The state most at risk: More than 2 million households in California are at high or extreme risk of wildfire, according to the report. Texas ranks second with 715,300 homes at risk.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cWildfires have scorched nearly 3.5 million acres so far in 2017,\u201d\u00a0says Arindam Samanta, director of product management and innovation at Verisk Insurance Solutions. \u201cFor the first half of 2017, the number of acres burned by wildfires is up 34 percent over 2016 and the 10-year average.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>In the last decade, wildfires have generated more than $5.1 billion in insured losses\u2014$3 billion in just the past five years, according to the report.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cThese fires represent one of the leading catastrophe exposures facing the industry today,\u201d Samanta says. \u201cThe ability to accurately identify the true wildfire exposure is critical to maintaining cost-based <a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/tips-for-house-price-negotiation\/\">pricing<\/a>. It also allows insurers that may have avoided the marketplace to explore expanding their book of business in these hazard areas.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/Verisk%20wildfire%20risk.png\" style=\"width: 275px; height: 441px;\"\/><\/p>\n\n<p><em>Source: Verisk Insurance Solutions<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n  \n    \n<\/pre>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<a hre=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/3UxjXZsg_zY\/wildfires-remain-major-threat-in-many-areas\"> Realtors.org <\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 4.5 million U.S. homes are at high or extreme risk of wildfires, according to the &hellip; <a title=\"Wildfires Remain Major Threat in Many Areas\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wildfires-remain-major-threat-in-many-areas\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Wildfires Remain Major Threat in Many Areas<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5369,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[4751,12908,543,127,617,698,41,818,479],"class_list":["post-5368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-amazing","tag-home","tag-home-buying-guide","tag-homes","tag-house","tag-insurance","tag-property","tag-real","tag-realtor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Verisk%20wildfire%20risk.png?fit=275%2C441&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89949,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5368\/revisions\/89949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}