WUI Clear: Verified Wildfire Resilient Property

The endgame

Hardened homes should not chase insurance. Insurance should chase them.

WUI Clear was built toward one destination: a marketplace where insurance carriers and brokers compete to write California's verified-hardened homes, instead of homeowners begging for quotes. We call it the WUI Clear Exchange, and every compliance record on this platform is a brick in it.

A hardened home with metal shingle roof and stone hardscape, the inventory the Exchange is built on

Why now

California has rebuilt the rules of this market. Under the state's insurance modernization, participating carriers take on real commitments to expand writing in wildfire-distressed communities, homes that meet the Safer from Wildfires standard are positioned first in line for the return to the standard market, and the FAIR Plan is charged by statute with moving policyholders back to admitted carriers. The missing piece has never been willingness. It is knowing, with evidence, which homes are the safe ones. That evidence layer is what WUI Clear builds every day.

What the Exchange will be

The system of record for wildfire resilience, opened to the market: an inventory of homes that are hardened and proven, independently verified against the full measure set, photo-documented, current, and consent-based. Carriers and brokers gain a way to find the risks they actually want, including a premium tier of homes protected by installed exterior suppression systems. Homeowners gain the thing this crisis has denied them: competition for their business. Every introduction happens with the homeowner's consent, through licensed professionals.

Where it stands

Delivered today: the verified compliance record and the standardized carrier submission package, in use across our launch counties. In development: the Exchange itself, including a component Wildfire Resilience Score (structure hardening, vegetation, ember resistance, water and suppression readiness, maintenance status) with the evidence behind every component, and API access for underwriting systems. We are onboarding a limited group of carriers, agents, and brokers as design partners ahead of launch.

Illustrative preview · sample listings, fictional insurers

The inventory carriers will compete for

Hardened hilltop ranch with metal roof and gravel defensible space at golden hour12/12 CDI VERIFIEDEXT. SPRINKLERS

ZIP 95404

Santa Rosa · Sonoma

FAIR Plan, 3 years

Seeking admitted-market quotes

FIREWISE COMMUNITYSAFER FROM WILDFIRES
  • Class A metal roof
  • Ember-resistant vents throughout
  • Zone 0 rock apron, full perimeter
  • Automated exterior sprinklers, dual detection
Two-story home with metal shingle roof, fiber cement shake siding and paver hardscape12/12 CDI VERIFIEDEXT. SPRINKLERS

ZIP 95446

Guerneville · Sonoma

Formerly FAIR Plan

Placed with Redwood Ridge Mutual (example)

FIREWISE COMMUNITYSAFER FROM WILDFIRES
  • Metal shingle roof
  • HardieShake fiber cement siding
  • Ember gutter covers
  • Eave sprinkler system installed
Single-story ranch home with wide noncombustible patio12/12 CDI VERIFIED

ZIP 95448

Healdsburg · Sonoma

FAIR Plan, 2 years

Seeking admitted-market quotes

FIREWISE COMMUNITYSAFER FROM WILDFIRES
  • Class A composition roof
  • Noncombustible patio wrap, all elevations
  • Fine-mesh foundation vents verified
  • Defensible space to 100 ft, inspected
Home with standing seam metal roof, illustration12/12 CDI VERIFIED

ZIP 95033

Santa Cruz Mountains

Nonrenewed 2025, cured

Seeking admitted-market quotes

SAFER FROM WILDFIRES
  • Standing seam metal roof
  • Dual-pane windows throughout
  • Enclosed eaves
  • 12/12 verified this spring
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Verified home #5

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #6

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #7

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #8

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #9

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #10

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #11

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

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Verified home #12

Every new compliance record adds a listing carriers can compete for.

Sample listings for illustration. Insurer names are fictional. Real Exchange inventory is consent-based and shared only with approved carriers, agents, and brokers.

Coming soon

The Exchange opens to carriers, agents, and brokers as verified inventory comes online.

Every assessment on the platform today builds the listings above. Early-access design partners see the pipeline first.

Early access

Carriers, agents, brokers: get in before the line forms

Design partners shape the inventory views, record formats, and introduction flows, and see the verified-home pipeline first.

Request early access

WUI Clear is an independent platform, not affiliated with the California FAIR Plan or the Department of Insurance.

Homeowner? Your path into the Exchange starts with your record.

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