‘Left with nothing’: inside California’s wildfire home insurance crisis

As California sees increasingly devastating fires, Butte county residents lose their insurance - and homes

Kristy and Michael Daneau breathed a deep sigh of relief when they found the home for sale on a heavily wooded lane in northern California's Butte county five years ago. Everything lined up.

The owner was looking to sell only to survivors of the Camp fire. A few months earlier, the couple and their four daughters had lost everything in the blaze, save for their four dogs. Kristy barely escaped the fast-moving flames.