California FAIR Plan to hike home insurance rates 29%. Map shows where
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Key Points:
- Megan Fan Munce is a climate reporter focusing on California’s home insurance crisis, covering insurer rate changes, the California FAIR Plan, and related policy initiatives.
- She won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in Explanatory Reporting for a series investigating how insurance industry practices hindered wildfire survivors from rebuilding.
- Munce has also received multiple prestigious awards, including honors from the Barlett & Steele Awards, Investigative Reporters and Editors, and the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.
- She began her career through the Hearst Journalism Fellowship, spending time at the Houston Chronicle before joining the San Francisco Chronicle.
- Munce grew up in the Bay Area and graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.