{"id":744628,"date":"2026-06-18T09:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744628\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T09:02:08","slug":"extreme-weather-drives-canadian-home-insurance-claims-to-record-highs-statistics-canada-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/744628\/","title":{"rendered":"Extreme weather drives Canadian home insurance claims to record highs \u2013 Statistics Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Record losses<\/p>\n<p>Since 2009, Canadian insurers have paid nearly $2 billion per year on average in catastrophic weather-related claims, up sharply from approximately $400 million annually between 1983 and 2008. Annual insured losses have reached unprecedented levels in recent years, including $3.4 billion in 2022 and $9.4 billion in 2024, the highest figure ever recorded. Four of the last five years now rank among the 10 costliest on record for insured catastrophe losses in Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record losses Since 2009, Canadian insurers have paid nearly $2 billion per year on average in catastrophic weather-related&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,266827,266828,44,50],"class_list":["post-744628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-catastrophic-weather","tag-home-insurance","tag-news","tag-statistics-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}