The wildfire burning in the Southern California county could exacerbate the homeowner insurance crisis in the state.
Months before a devastating wildfire burned through thousands of acres in Southern California, San Bernardino County supervisors had asked the state's authorities to stabilize its struggling homeowner insurance sector and stop companies from cutting coverage.Now, with the Line Fire still burning uncontrolled as of early on Monday, the homeowner insurance crisis in the fire-prone region is likely to get worse.
A growing lack of options for coverage has left many Californians scrambling and having to rely on the California Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan, a state-established risk pool acting as California's insurer of last resort which provides basic fire coverage for those who cannot find it on the traditional market.The coverage offered by the FAIR plan is thought to be only a temporary solution—but the size of the insurer of last resort has exploded in the past few years.
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