Colorado Debating Pine Beetle/Wildfire Modeling Project to Battle “Decade-Scale” Insurance Risk
Staff for Colorado lawmakers are pushing back on a $300,000 Colorado Division of Insurance request to model how the state’s expanding mountain pine beetle outbreak could worsen wildfire risk scores and pressure homeowners insurance affordability.
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