With wildfires now a consistent and recurring threat for many living in Wine Country, the rising cost of fire insurance is making the already expensive area even more financially challenging for residents there.
NAPA COUNTY — It has now been four and a half years since the North Bay Wildfires signaled a new era of fire risk in our region and California.
“We’ve been hit from the north,” said Gail Bickett. “We’ve been hit from the south. We’ve been hit from the east. They save the most dangerous place to live in Napa County because of fire these days.” “What’s been going up often,” she said of insurance woes. “I’ve been canceled once by one company, and AAA took me out a few years ago. My insurance now is $3,000 a year.”
“We’ve had an insurance crisis now for a number of years,” Assemblymember Marc Levine said Friday. “Certainly after the 2017 North Bay fires.”
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