The After the Fire USA Wildfire Leadership Summit
September 20-22, 2022 in Sonoma, CA
PANEL: I’ll Rebuild, but Can I Get Insurance? The State of Home Insurability in the Era of Megafire
MODERATOR: Tim Carpenter, Director of Disaster Rebuilding and Recovery, Fannie Mae
PANELISTS:
Valerie Brown, Deputy Executive Director, United Policyholders
Jackie Boies, Senior Director, Partner Relations, Money Management International
Molly Mowery, AICP, Executive Director, Community Wildfire Planning Center
Alister Watt, Chief Product Officer, IBHS
Contact the Panel:
https://uphelp.org
https://ibhs.org
https://www.moneymanagement.org/nonprofit/solutions
https://disasternetwork.net
https://wildfireplanning.com/about
Topics Covered:
The panel explores the factors that impact home insurance in the era of megafire. Due to the surge of home loss and increased occurances of climate disasters, insurers are raising rates and some are finding they cannot even get any insurance for their homes. The panelists share their understanding of the factors involved, what they are seeing from disaster survivors who are making claims and rebuilding homes, and how all homes might take proactive steps to reduce risk with home hardening. including home hardening. These preventive steps may be recognized by insurers as a key factor in insurability and policy rates.
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After The Fire USA hosted a three-day conference for networking, knowledge sharing, and capacity building to address the problem of Megafires in the US. The Wildfire Leadership Summit took place at the Hanna Center in Sonoma, California and was built from a coalition of wildfire communities, wildfire recovery and resilience organizations, and local community groups, regional, national partners, funders, and leaders.
Thank you to the major sponsor of the Leadership Summit, Fannie Mae and their Disaster Response Network.
Thanks to our Summit host Hanna Center and to The Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety (IBHS) for their generous contribution, for the travel support provided by Alaska Airlines and thanks to Wednesday’s evening film event sponsor Obsidian Wine Company.
For more information about After The Fire USA, or the Wildfire Leadership Summit, please visit AfterTheFireUSA.org or email @info@AfterTheFireUSA.org.