With insured losses projected to exceed $30 billion, the recent Los Angeles wildfires rank among the costliest in U.S. history—reshaping how insurers think about risk, resilience, and readiness.
In this on-demand webinar, experts from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS), the Western Fire Chiefs Association, Cal Poly’s WUI Fire Institute, and ZestyAI unpack what really happened—from frontline response to lab-based research and model performance—and share critical strategies insurers can use to prepare for what’s next.
Watch this session if you’re a Product Managers, Underwriters, Actuaries, and Risk & Innovation leaders looking to make informed decisions in an increasingly volatile wildfire landscape.
What You’ll Learn:
- Key takeaways from the Los Angeles wildfires
- Research on structure-to-structure fire spread and resilience factors
- How wildfire risk models performed—what we got right (and wrong)
- Practical strategies to reduce exposure and strengthen resilience
Featured Speakers:
- Anne Cope, Chief Engineer, IBHS
- Bob Roper, CEO, Western Fire Chiefs Association
- Frank Frievalt, Director, WUI Fire Institute at Cal Poly
- Kumar Duhvur, Co-Founder & CPO, ZestyAI