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The impact of climate-fueled fires on homeowners

Wildfires and other climate-fueled disasters are straining insurance markets.

Broadcast on:
20 May 2024
A Boise firefighter walks by all that remains of the poorly prepared home at a recent demonstration fire.
A Boise firefighter walks by all that remains of the poorly prepared home at a recent demonstration fire.(Murphy Woodhouse / Boise State Public Radio )

Wildfires and other climate-fueled disasters are straining insurance markets.

Recently, officials met in Boise to compare notes on how to avoid what some call the "uninsurable future." The Mountain West News Bureau's Murphy Woodhouse was there.