California banned insurers from canceling or not renewing residential property policies in the Los Angeles neighborhoods that were affected by the blazes that destroyed swaths of the city this week.

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara said he's ordered insurance companies to have a one-year moratorium on insurance non-renewals and cancellations for people impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires.

In 2019, the number of homeowners’ policies in California that were not renewed jumped by more than thirty per cent. In 2023, two giant insurers, State Farm and Allstate, announced that they would stop writing new policies for various forms of property insurance in California.