Roughly one out of every 10 Los Angeles homeowners lacks insurance – a share on par with statewide trends, according to one estimate.

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes in California as six fires continue to devastate the Los Angeles area.

California’s 2025 wildfires crisis have left many residents grappling with the catastrophe without the safety net of home insurance. Now a Lending Tree report says about 10% of Los Angeles

We asked three experts how much insurance will reimburse for costs like hotel stays and long-term vacation rentals for those who lost their homes in the Los Angeles wildfires.

Roughly one out of every 10 Los Angeles homeowners lacks insurance – a share on par with statewide trends, according to one estimate. My trusty spreadsheet reviewed LendingTree’s tracking of ...

John Hope Bryant writes about how the solutions—creative, bold, and compassionate—to this devastating crisis are in our hands.

As the fires in Los Angeles ease, displaced residents face a new challenge: finding a place to live. The destruction has caused demand for rentals to surge in an already tight and unaffordable housing market.

Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.

Credit rating agency S&P placed a credit watch warning on Los Angeles’s general obligation and municipal improvement lease revenue bonds, signaling at least a one-in-two chance that the agency could “take a negative rating action during the next 90 days.

Awareness of doom in Los Angeles, and yet a need to push disaster away, has created a kind of collective psychosis.

Analysts project based on preliminary estimates that the LA wildfires could be the costliest wildfire event in California, in terms of insured losses, possibly exceeding $20bn. An insured loss is the financial damage caused by an event that is covered by insurance.

Of the people who were looking to move, nearly half cited the political climate as their reason for wanting to find a new home. Other reasons included the expected ones, such as outgrowing their current home and wanting to live closer to loved ones.