Property losses have been few from the fires raging throughout California, despite more than 400,000 acres of California woodlands going up in smoke, officials said.
According to the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection Web site, so far 60 structures have been destroyed from 1,459 fires throughout the state consuming more than 435,894 acres. Of the 60 structures, 31 were homes.
Gary Kerney, assistant vice president of Property Claim Services, a subsidiary of Jersey City, N.J.-based Insurance Services Office Inc., while wildfires are numerous in California and other western states, none have "damaged a significant number of insured properties to be declared a catastrophe."
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