California’s insurance commissioner won’t allow canceled or nonrenewed policies in and around the fire zones for a year.

The California insurance commissioner issued a mandatory one-year moratorium on non-renewals and cancellations to protect Southern California residents affected by the recent fires.​

State Farm canceled hundreds of homeowners’ insurance policies for residents in many of the same areas now in the path of the Southern California wildfires. The insurance company’s reasoning for canceling policies for people living in Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles County,

Insurance companies and rates haven’t kept up with increasingly catastrophic events like the California wildfires or hurricanes that recently hit Florida, Tennessee and North Carolina. It can put