Wildfire risk upends California’s marijuana heartland as insurance vanishes
https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/09/18/wildfire-risk-upends-californias-cannabis-heartland-as-insurance-vanishes/
Hannah Whyte is one of thousands of Californians who have struggled to insure their property in the event of wildfire.
Her 77-acre farm nestled deep in a wildfire-vulnerable forest lost its coverage from State Farm after the mountainous region burned six years ago, and she’s found herself excluded from the state-created insurer of last resort designed to protect the most vulnerable. She’s become uninsurable because of her crop: cannabis.