#1 California Again Delays Wildfire Protection Rules for Homes

Dec 10 2025 // A California state agency won’t meet Gov. Gavin Newsom’s year-end deadline to finish long-delayed regulations to protect homes from wildfires, rules that experts say could have limited the destruction of the...

#2 Massive Wildfire Liabilities Push Utilities to Use AI to Stop Blazes

Nov 25 2025 // On the hunt for cheap and fast strategies to prevent deadly wildfires, utilities across the US and Europeare contracting with a handful of artificial intelligence startups to map wildfire risk along thousands of miles of...

#3 Arizona Study Group Issues Report on Homeowners Insurance and Wildfire Risk

Dec 5 2025 // A report from a regulator-created group found that a multifaceted approach to addressing wildfires and lack of insurance affordability in Arizona should be tackled with a multifaceted approach that includes homeowners,...

#4 Catastrophe Bonds Linked to Wildfires Lose ‘Untouchable’ Status

Dec 19 2025 // Alternative investment managers are starting to take a serious interest in catastrophe bonds tied to wildfires, moving into a risk category that just a few years ago was seen as too difficult to model.More than $5 billion...

#5 Report Asks Washington Lawmakers to Require Insurers to Better Track Wildfire Risk

Dec 3 2025 // A working group on wildfires in Washington wants the state Legislature to consider requiring insurers to internally track instances in which wildfire risk materially contributes to a policy nonrenewal, cancellation or...

#6 Buffett Utility Reaches Oregon Wildfire Deal With Nearly 1,500 Victims

Nov 20 2025 // Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s PacifiCorp said it has reached a $150 million settlement with 1,434 plaintiffs associated with the 2020 Labor Day fires in Oregon.The accord, disclosed Wednesday in a regulatory filing, will...

#7 Texas Sues Utility Company Xcel Over ‘Blatant Negligence’ in Fatal Wildfire

Dec 17 2025 // Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Xcel Energy Inc., accusing the utility company of “blatant negligence” over its role in the Smokehouse Creek wildfire that killed three people and caused more than $1...