Climate change is having a direct impact on home insurance rates
Last weekend in B.C.’s Kelowna region, the air was still strong with wildfire smoke after a summer of seemingly endless fires, including the fire that destroyed nearly 200 homes in West Kelowna.
In the past seven years, the province has experienced “four of the most severe wildfire seasons of the last century,” according to a paper in Nature, written by Canadian academics.
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