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Arizona wildfire task force, insurers and counties face data crunch; state forester outlines approach
Summary
Arizona's newly created insurance review task force will combine insurer data and wildfire risk mapping to recommend code and policy changes, DFFM director Tom Torres told the Coconino County Board, urging counties to provide input and citing the need for sustained federal mitigation funding.
Tom Torres, director of the Arizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management, told the county board on Tuesday that insurance pressures in wildfire-prone areas are the result of multiple factors — rising construction costs, catastrophic losses nationwide, reinsurance market shifts — and that hard data are needed to craft solutions.
"One of the fundamental requirements of the new insurance review task force law is to get hard data," Torres…
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