Skyrocketing Colorado Home Insurance Rates Triggered by Hail and Wildfires

August 15, 2023August 15, 2023 H. Cutner

Insurers in the state are blaming increasingly extreme weather and wildfires for the higher premiums. Home insurance rates are headed skyward again in Colorado as state officials estimate that one in two people in the state live in zones that are considered high-risk wildfire zones. Homeowners in the state have already watched their premiums rise by over 50 percent in three years. To keep up with the wildfire risk, on top of the risk of other damaging weather events such as hail, on top of the rising cost of home…

Colorado homeowners’ insurance rate hikes could push residents out of the state

July 29, 2022July 28, 2022 Logan B.

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Some property owners wonder how they will afford the impact of climate change and inflation on premiums. Colorado homeowners insurance rates have been heading rapidly higher due to the impact of climate change and inflation, among others, causing some residents to wonder if they will be able to afford to remain within the state. Many households in the state have watched their premiums climbing in the double digits. As the cost of inflation also impacts the price of other essentials, such as food, energy, fuel, and labor shortages affect child…

Homeowners insurance on its way up for Colorado residents

October 9, 2012April 30, 2013

Colorado homeowners insurance industry wildfires

After many had been told that the fires wouldn’t have much impact on rates, increases are still here. Many long time residents of Colorado are now facing the largest homeowners insurance premiums increase they’ve ever seen, as the impact of years of catastrophes, barely including the wildfires, on their rates is now being revealed. Unfortunately, this is only the start of what is likely to be a larger wave of increases. Though the very first of the homeowners insurance customers to see the increases have already done so on their…