{"id":486,"date":"2019-03-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/?p=486"},"modified":"2019-02-26T16:15:33","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T21:15:33","slug":"how-changes-to-home-insurance-rates-reflect-to-increasing-severe-weather-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/how-changes-to-home-insurance-rates-reflect-to-increasing-severe-weather-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"How Changes to Home Insurance Rates Reflect to Increasing Severe Weather Conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Home insurance rates are significantly changing due to severe weather conditions that have long been associated with the earth&#8217;s climate change. The industry&#8217;s pending financial losses are a direct result from the amount of damage sustained in these&nbsp;storms, and their occurrence&nbsp;seems to be on the rise with each passing year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The state of New Jersey has seen the after-effects from severe weather conditions&nbsp;as Superstorm&nbsp;Sandy hit the tri-state area in October 2012&nbsp;and caused $65 billion in damage. Thus, making it the second-costliest weather disaster in the history of the United States. Insurance agencies&nbsp;like&nbsp;E.S.T.I.R. Inc. of&nbsp;Newark, NJ&nbsp;have seen this&nbsp;region&nbsp;become more susceptible&nbsp;to&nbsp;hurricanes, wind and hail damage, but the severity of these storms have&nbsp;become more frequent than ever before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Factoring Severe Weather Conditions Before Buying a Home<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The key to any real estate deal is location&#8230;location&#8230;location. In the past, prospective&nbsp;homeowners&#8217;&nbsp;only concern was the condition of the property, type of&nbsp;neighborhood and gauge the quality of the local school system before committing to a purchase. Now, they must be&nbsp;more conscious about the severity of the weather conditions by seeking reports on which communities are at risk from rising water and other weather-related&nbsp;damages.&nbsp;Many will consult with various building contractors on disaster prevention options&nbsp;for their new home. Many of these businesses specialize in reducing the damage&nbsp;caused by severe weather conditions, and their knowledge will help to lower your premium as well.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Having An Eco-Friendly Home&nbsp;May Offset High Premium Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Landowners are making a concerted effort to have a more eco-friendly home, especially if their property is in the crosshairs of severe&nbsp;weather conditions.&nbsp;Their attempting&nbsp;to&nbsp;reduce the threat of property damage, which lowers the amount of home insurance claims. Thus, offsetting high premium coverage.&nbsp;It begins by taking the necessary steps&nbsp;to make&nbsp;the&nbsp;home more weather-resistant to this&nbsp;rapidly changing climate and limiting&nbsp;the amount of damage sustained in a severe storm.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Home insurance rates are significantly changing due to severe weather conditions that have long been associated with the earth&#8217;s climate change. The industry&#8217;s pending financial losses are a direct result from the amount of damage sustained in these&nbsp;storms, and their occurrence&nbsp;seems to be on the rise with each passing year.&nbsp; The state of New Jersey [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[94,214],"class_list":["post-486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-insurance","tag-e-s-t-i-r-inc","tag-newark-nj"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.estirinsurance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}