Home Insurers Shift Cost to Homeowners as Climate Change Exacerbates Natural Disasters

Home Insurers Shift Cost to Homeowners as Climate Change Exacerbates Natural Disasters

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. Last weekend, I stood outside an apartment complex in Mitchell County, North Carolina, and, as the mid-day sun beat down on me, I listened to a middle-aged woman tell me that her family’s home place in the neighboring county was up to her chest in mud. She…