Factbox-LA blaze damage likely to be largest wildfire insured loss in US history

A burnt car is parked on a street, as the Eaton Fire continues, in Altadena, California, U.S. January 13, 2025. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

(Reuters) - The Los Angeles wildfires, which have reduced entire neighborhoods to smoldering ruins and left an apocalyptic landscape, could become the costliest wildfires in U.S. history in terms of insured losses if analysts' estimates of up to $20 billion materialize.

Dangerously high winds were expected to resume on Monday in Los Angeles, potentially hampering efforts to extinguish two stubborn wildfires that have claimed the lives of at least two dozen people.