caused The fires in California have damages of at least eight billion euros. The US insurance announced. However, the sum is set to rise.

The devastating forest fires in California have caused damage in the amount of at least nine billion dollars (eight billion euros). This number is the previous damage reports of the insurance companies, such as the California insurance reported to Supervisory add up.

The number is expected to rise in the coming weeks, but still. “The destructive forest fires of 2018 were the deadliest and most expensive in California history,” authorities said Manager Dave Jones. The number of deaths and “more than nine billion dollars of insured losses are shocking Figures”. He said that behind the Figures were but “thousands of people who were traumatized by immeasurable loss.”

The place of Paradise was almost completely destroyed.

“Camp Fire” destroyed seven billion dollars

In the case of the forest fires of the past few weeks in the West coast state were, at least 89 people have been killed and about 19,000 homes and businesses were destroyed. With around seven billion dollars of the so-called “Camp Fire” that devastated the Californian town of Paradise, caused the greatest damage. Alone, this fire fell at least 86 people were killed. The damage caused by the forest fires, “Woolsey Fire” with three dead and the “Hill Fire” can be estimated at around two billion dollars. The “Woolsey Fire” had destroyed parts of the celebrity home Malibu.