Experts: Austin's proposed wildfire risk map unlikely to hike property insurance rates

Experts: Austin's proposed wildfire risk map unlikely to hike property insurance rates

Austin City Council is set to vote Thursday on an expanded wildfire risk map that some local industry groups have opposed due to cost increases.

Austin adopts new map that greatly expands area at risk of wildfire

More than half of habitable land in Austin is now considered at risk of being damaged in a wildfire. That’s up from just under 40% nearly a decade ago.