Hey, everyone. I'm Amy Scott, host of How We Survive, and we're back with another episode of Burning Questions.

In the wake of the Los Angeles wildfires, we're taking a look at insurance.

Thousands of folks were dropped by their insurance providers in the months leading up to the wildfires,

as more and more private insurers have decided the climate

risks are too great in some areas. So we're asking, is the future insurable? Before we get into

that with an expert, we're surveying the damage on the ground in Los Angeles. It's been a few weeks

since wildfires broke out across the city. At least

28 people have died in the palisades and eaten fires. More than 10,000 homes have been

destroyed, and tens of thousands of people have had to evacuate. It's hard to imagine the scale

of the destruction, but our producers, Haley Hirschman and Caitlin Esch, actually had a chance to tour the Pacific

Palisades after the disaster.

Haley, what was that like?

Yeah, so we went to the Palisades to see some of the damage that was caused by the

wildfires.

This was almost exactly two weeks after

the fires first broke out. We went with Dr. Howard Botz and Garrett Gray. Hey, Haley, Howard Bots.

They work for CoreLogic, which is a property data and analytics firm. They had both professional

and personal reasons for taking us on this tour. Howard is in charge of hazard and

climate risk models at CoreLogic, and a big part of Garrett's job is providing technology and

data solutions for the insurance industry in part using the data from these hazard risk models.

So they wanted to look around and assess the area. But Amy, they both also live in the Pacific

Palisades. So this is their community. And they wanted to see what's become of it.

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