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Fair Plan Change – Discounts for Individual Improvements Available
If you are on the Fair Plan, on 11/152025, the discounts for defensible space work changed. Previously, homeowners received discounts only if they met all requirements in a category. This …
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Mitigation is Affordable and Saves up to $13 per $1 Invested
National Institute of Business Sciences. There are affordable and highlycost-effective strategies that policymakers, building owners, and the building industry can deploy to reduce the impacts of fire, wind, flood, and …
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Foothill Fire Flash Newsletter
Fall 2024. Publication by the El Dorado County Fire Safe Council (EDCFSC) discussing: – Eaves: Home hardening spotlight including how to close in soffits– Fire Safe Council Doings/helpful programs– Wildlife …
The following is a presentation by the El Dorado County Office of Wildfire Preparedness and Resilience for the August 29, 2023, El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meeting. The presentation may be downloaded for easier viewing.
California’s homeowners insurance crisis is growing and spreading to car insurance
July 7, 2023. KPBS. Excerpts: “Some insurance carriers have stopped writing new homeowner policies in California. The most recent are the largest so far: Allstate and State Farm.” “Soller noted that auto insurance in California functions a little differently. California has a good driver law. It requires every insurance company writing private passenger coverage to insure good drivers,” he said, adding that most Californians are good drivers, thus giving them options.”