Hey, everybody, it's Kai.

Even though the fires here in Los Angeles are mostly under control for now, the disaster

does continue, and it's going to have major ripple effects across the local economy here,

the housing crisis, and the already fragile insurance market in California.

For more on that, we're sharing a special episode of Burning Questions today, a series from

our friends over at Marketplace's Climate Solutions podcast, How We Survive, hosted by Amy Scott. Here you go.

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.

Hi.

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

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