Do unseasonably warm temperatures, spring wildfires foretell devastating Oregon fire season? OregonLive.com 1 hr ago Catalina Gaitán, oregonlive.com
With the return of unseasonably warm temperatures, widespread drought, wildfires and burn bans, it’s been difficult for some Oregonians not to recall last September, when wildland blazes burned over 1 million acres, killed nine people and displaced nearly 40,000 others.
But while climate change is making wildfires more common, experts say, it takes an unlikely combination of weather conditions to create a fire season as deadly and costly as the Northwest experienced in 2020.
And even though Oregonians should be taking steps to be prepared for wildfires, they shouldn’t take this spring’s unusually warm weather as a harbinger of an especially harrowing fire season or a sign that sunny, warm days are here to stay.
SALEM â With the prospect of a catastrophic 2021 fire season looming, Oregon will rely again on its one-of-a-kind $25 million wildfire risk policy with the world s oldest continually active insurance marketplace.
Lloyd s of London, which traces its roots to a 17th century coffeehouse near the Tower of London, has insured the Oregon Department of Forestry against wildfire losses since 1973. No other state has wildfire insurance. It s a catastrophic firefighting expense policy, said ODF spokesman Jim Gersbach.
Oregon s trees are among Lloyd s one-of-a-kind insurance policies that have included 1940s actress Betty Grable s legs, comedian Jimmy Durante s outsized nose, rock star Bruce Springsteen s voice, Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards hands, and crooner Tom Jones chest hair.
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The state s valuable timber resources are on a long list of unusual things the global company has insured for many years.
With the prospect of a catastrophic 2021 fire season looming, Oregon will rely again on it s one-of-a-kind $25 million wildfire risk policy with the world s oldest continually active insurance marketplace.
Lloyd s of London, which traces its roots to a 17th century coffeehouse near the Tower of London, has insured the Oregon Department of Forestry against wildfire losses since 1973. No other state has wildfire insurance. It s a catastrophic firefighting expense policy, said ODF spokesman Jim Gersbach.