ALTADENA, CA, Dec. 17, 2025 – The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and Global Emergency Relief, Recovery & Reconstruction (GER3) are working in collaboration to bring IBHS’s science-based Wildfire Prepared Home designation program to vulnerable families in Altadena, California, following the Eaton Fire.
SACRAMENTO, CA and RICHBURG, SC, March 25, 2026 – The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) and the American Property Casualty Insurance Association (APCIA) today released a new resource to help local governments, fire services and other community organizations come together to implement coordinated wildfire mitigation programs in their communities. The Community Wildfire Risk Reduction Program Framework outlines how communities can organize, launch and sustain effective wildfire risk reduction efforts.
Non-profit’s preparedness guide, app offer actions to prepare homes ahead of fall’s windy conditions based on scientific research
Ian Giammanco, PhD Managing Director of Standards and Data Analytics & Lead Research Meteorologist Dr. Ian Giammanco is the Managing Director for Standards & Data Analytics and a Lead Research Meteorologist at the IBHS Research Center in Richburg, South Carolina. Dr. Giammanco holds a B.S. in Atmospheric Science from the University of Louisiana at Monroe,…
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