Home insurance rates climb as climate change takes its toll

Published on December 16, 2025
(Home insurance) A study by UFC-Que Choisir, the French consumer advocacy group, found that climate-related events are driving up home insurance rates every year.These phenomena (storms, hail, floods, droughts), cost the French insurance market 5 billion EUR (5.9 billion USD) in 2024, making it the ninth costliest year since the natural disaster co