{"id":747932,"date":"2026-08-24T06:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747932\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T06:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T06:52:08","slug":"new-forest-wildfire-contained-but-the-insurance-questions-are-just-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/747932\/","title":{"rendered":"New Forest wildfire contained, but the insurance questions are just beginning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">The wider context matters here. According to the Association of British Insurers, UK insurers paid out a record \u00a36.1 billion in property claims in 2025 &#8211; the highest annual total since the ABI began collecting this data &#8211; with weather-related claims reaching \u00a31.2 billion, up 14% year on year. The PRA launched its Dynamic General Insurance Stress Test in May 2026, covering firms representing more than 80% of the UK general insurance market, explicitly to test insurer resilience to adverse scenarios of this kind. The New Forest fire, contained without significant structural property damage but with real multi-line impact across motor, environmental and BI categories, is a live example of the exposure that exercise was designed to probe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The wider context matters here. According to the Association of British Insurers, UK insurers paid out a record&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,1349,247161,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-747932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-insurance","tag-new-forest-wildfire","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}