# California $2 Billion Fire Loss 

_News_

Canonical: https://www.claimspages.com/news/i1320/

California officials said today that wildfires in the state have wreaked destruction amounting to $2 billion burning 620,000 acres and 1,536 homes.

The blaze in one area reached a record level an insurance services group reported.

Yesterday California Gov. Gray Davis added Riverside County to four others he has proclaimed in a state of emergency. As he did for Los Angeles, San Bernardino San Diego and Ventura counties, Mr. Davis asked for a disaster declaration from federal authorities for Riverside.

Dave Dasgupta, a spokesperson for Jersey City, N.J.–based Insurance Services Office said the Cedar Fire near San Diego had become “the largest fire in California history” by encompassing 233,000 acres.

He said ISO‘s Property Claim Services unit has declared that fire, which has burned 1,000 structures, a catastrophe.

Sources:
- National Underwriter (http://www.nationalunderwriter.com/pandc/hotnews/viewPC.asp?article=10_29_03_16_10834.xml&src=5)