State insurance commissioner Dave Jones said today that damage claims from last month’s California wildfires are now at $9 billion and he expects that number to rise. $7 billion of he claims are related to the Camp Fire in Butte County.
Yesterday, state and federal officials estimated that just the debris removal in Butte, Los Angeles, and Ventura Counties will cost more than $3 billion.
The insurance commissioner’s office said there are more than 28,000 claims for residential personal property, nearly 2,000 from commercial property and 9,400 in auto and other claims for the fires.
