{"id":1386069,"date":"2019-01-28T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=964734"},"modified":"2019-01-28T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T21:10:55","slug":"insurance-claims-from-deadly-2018-california-wildfires-top-11-4-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/local-news\/insurance-claims-from-deadly-2018-california-wildfires-top-11-4-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Insurance claims from deadly 2018 California wildfires top $11.4 billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"620\" height=\"414\" src=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19028713714633-620x414.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium-large size-medium-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19028713714633-620x414.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19028713714633-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19028713714633-325x217.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/AP19028713714633.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Insurance claims from California&#8217;s deadly November 2018 wildfires have topped $11.4 billion, making the series of fires one of the most expensive in state history, officials said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>More than $8 billion of those losses are from the fire that leveled the town of Paradise, killing 86 people and destroying roughly 15,000 homes, state Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said. Roughly $3 billion worth of damage is related to two Southern California wildfires that ignited during the same week. &#8220;We have a long way to go before we can feel whole again,&#8221; Lara said after announcing the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The $11.4 billion total is slightly below the losses claimed from 2017 wildfires that ripped through Northern California wine country in October and Southern California in December.<\/p>\n<p>While far more houses were destroyed in last year&#8217;s wildfires, home values are much lower in rural California communities, officials said last year.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/01\/28\/california-wildfires-insurance-claims\/\">Denverpost.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/insurance-claims-from-deadly-2018-california-wildfires-top-11-4-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 Insurance claims from California&#8217;s deadly November 2018 wildfires have topped $11.4 billion, making the series of fires one of the most expensive in state history, officials said Monday. More than $8 billion of those losses are from the fire that leveled the town of Paradise, killing 86 people and destroying roughly 15,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-01 01:01:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KKCH - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kkch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}