SFR Old Trails Fire Update

Sorta fishing-related
Before I left nearly two weeks ago I read that you wondered how your house would fare. So sorry to learn that you lost it. Add my sympathies to the many expressed here.

I heard that 600 to 700 homes were at risk. Is there a tally as to how many houses were lost to this fire? I was driving through Clinton, B.C. Saturday, and we thought we would stop there for lunch. Not possible; the whole town was closed down and evacuated due to a wildfire. The town was saved, but just outside the city limits for several miles each direction we saw so much destruction, many homes, barns, and commercial buildings, but a patchwork of houses remained unaffected, or nearly so. The loss to so many wildfires is nearly incomprehensible. Very sobering moment to drive through an area that had been on fire the previous few days. The evacuation was lifted by the time we reached Cache Creek so people were able to return to town, but those who lost their homes have little to return to.

I hope your travails with insurance work out OK, Dean.
 
Homeowners in neighborhoods adjacent to our home in Sunriver are being notified their fire insurance will not be renewed once their current policy expires, causing a scramble to find carriers willing to issue policies at 2x and 3x their former cost.
We're not alone in this, extreme weather of fire, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes have jacked rates across the country with an acceleration of insurance companies pulling out of many states or the home insurance business all together.
The counter to this is 'home hardening/home resiliency' measures to meet local geographic dangers.
This world is changing in so many ways faster than ever, and damn few are for the positive.
 
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SurfnFish said:
Homeowners in the surrounding areas are being notified their fire insurance will not be renewed once current policy expires, so a scramble to find carriers willing to issue policies at 2x and 3x their former cost.
We're not alone in this, extreme weather of fire, floods, hurricanes and tornadoes have jacked rates across the country with an acceleration of insurance companies pulling out of many states or the home insurance business all together.
The counter to this is 'home hardening/home resiliency' measures to meet local geographic dangers.
This world is changing in so many ways faster than ever, and damn few are for the positive.
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I'm in the Shasta Trinity Natl. Forest and have been dealing with this same BS. Our homeowners insurance has tripled since we bought our home in 2021. My insurance is now almost as much as my principal and interest. It's insane.
 
To make matters even worse in the suburban neighborhoods that are adjacent to wildlands in Spokane is how a big wildfire triggers copycat pyromania. Spokane was now had quite a few arsonists starting fires after the recent disaster. I believe most of them have been arrested.

I suspect it's a psychological phenomena like publicized teenage suicides in that those susceptible are sometimes propelled into action by the constant overwhelming presence in all sorts of media.
 
krusty said:
To make matters even worse in the suburban neighborhoods that are adjacent to wildlands in Spokane is how a big wildfire triggers copycat pyromania. Spokane was now had quite a few arsonists starting fires after the recent disaster. I believe most of them have been arrested.

I suspect it's a psychological phenomena like publicized teenage suicides in that those susceptible are sometimes propelled into action by the constant overwhelming presence in all sorts of media.
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Mental health specialists estimate that 1 in 8 individuals struggle with mental illness to varying degrees, and 5% of them are attracted to pyromania, so...
 
downriver79 said:
Yep. We got our share of those nutjobs out here.
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Coupla years ago when the county wasn't doing anything about a homeless encampment just outside of La Pine,OR that had been responsible for several fires, including a serious one, locals marshalled up and paid the encampment a visit... vacated overnight
 
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