Just over $100 million was cut from California's wildfire and forest resilience fund in the latest budget, though total spending has grown sharply since 2014.

President-elect Donald Trump called on California’s Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom to resign as he faces mounting criticism over his response to the Los Angeles wildfires. “One of the best and most beautiful parts of the United States of America is burning down to the ground.

In a recent interview, California Governor Gavin Newsom delivered a scathing response after Donald Trump blamed him for fires raging in the state.

In 2019, the number of homeowners’ policies in California that were not renewed jumped by more than thirty per cent. In 2023, two giant insurers, State Farm and Allstate, announced that they would stop writing new policies for various forms of property insurance in California.

The insurance industry is pushing back against Vice President Kamala Harris suggesting carriers canceled the policies of some California wildfire victims, calling her claims "false."

Insurance companies and rates haven’t kept up with increasingly catastrophic events like the California wildfires or hurricanes that recently hit Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina. It can put