New emergency insurance regulations for California went into effect for the new year that will require home insurance providers to write more policies, including in high-risk wildfire-prone areas.

Hundreds of thousands of California homeowners who have failed to find or lost access to home insurance as wildfires in the state become more destructive will once again be able to buy policies under a state regulation announced Monday.

Insurance companies in California will have to offer coverage to homeowners in wildfire-prone areas under a new state regulation that was announced Monday.