Reducing Hazardous Fuels Reduces Wildfire Risk

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Hazardous fuels drives flame lengths. Flame lengths drive fire intensity. Fire intensity drives wildfire risk. Reduce hazardous fuels, reduce risk. Kudos to Mercury Insurance for recognizing that the future of insurability in wildfire-prone regions will increasingly be mitigation-linked. BurnBot is delighted to partner with Mercury Insurance to help connect real-world fuels treatment and wildfire mitigation to better insurance outcomes, stronger communities, and long-term resilience. Thank you Victor Joseph and Mercury Insurance for your leadership and partnership!

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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech

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FiSci 2w

We are pleased to offer, within our tool, Mitigate, wildfire simulations with dynamics including fireline intensity, flame length, assets impacted, rate of spread, fire size during its progression, and time to assets. Additionally, Mitigate provides the ability to reduce hazardous fuels through a number of means and then test their effectiveness through simulated fires.

Ray Marmash 2w

Congratulations Anukool. I was just talking to James about Burnbot, and I see this post.

Jay Ribakove 2w

huge!

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Nicholai Allen 2w

Faith now rebooting for insurance companies with this. Helping forward actual real world risk reduction is win win. Anukool Lakhina congrats

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Preet Anand 2w

congrats dude! Glad to see an insurer taking a solid proactive step here

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Julian Baring 2w

Congratulations!!!

Melissa Steele 2w

Thanks so exciting!!! Congratulations!

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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech
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Keeping homes insurable in California means connecting the work of preventing wildfires to how insurance actually gets priced and offered. Excited to see Mercury Insurance and BurnBot partnering to make that real.
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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech
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Big news out of the US: Mercury Insurance has made its first-ever strategic investment in a private company — and it's BurnBot. The bet: verified mitigation is what unlocks insurability in fire-prone landscapes. We're also building the same capability for the Australian market. Currently commissioning our hardware in SEQ, with risk classification work underway in the Australian context. If you're an insurer, reinsurer or broker thinking about bushfire exposure, I'd genuinely like to hear what's keeping you up at night. #BushfireResilience #PrescribedFire #InsuranceInnovation
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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech
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California has flirted with complete market failure in homeowners insurance. Wildfire risk is rising far faster than premiums are allowed to. The average homeowner in CA pays about 35% less than one in TX. Since 2021, many insurers have exited the market entirely while the state's insurer of last resort, FAIR Plan, has tripled. It carries $750 billion of exposure. So if you can't raise prices, and you don't want to exit, can you reduce the risk itself? This partnership between BurnBot and Mercury Insurance is a huge step in that direction. They're creating a feedback loop between proactive mitigation and insurability.
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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech
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Mitigation-linked insurance is moving from concept to practice. Mercury Insurance's investment in BurnBot is a meaningful step toward aligning real-world fuels treatment with insurance outcomes in California. Congrats to both teams!
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Big news from BurnBot! We’re proud to announce a strategic investment and alliance partnership with Mercury Insurance. This marks Mercury’s first strategic investment in a private company - and a major signal that the future of wildfire resilience and insurance availability will be built through proactive mitigation. Together, BurnBot and Mercury will work to connect real-world wildfire risk reduction with insurance outcomes - combining fuels treatment, defensible space, and risk intelligence to help communities become safer, stronger, and more insurable over time. California’s insurance crisis requires new thinking. This partnership is about building a model where verified mitigation can help improve resilience, protect communities, and expand pathways to coverage. This is an exciting milestone for BurnBot, and an important step toward scaling practical wildfire solutions where they’re needed most. Read more at the link below. https://hubs.ly/Q04gcMxw0 #WildfireMitigation #WildfireResilience #ClimateTech #InsuranceInnovation #CommunityResilience #DefensibleSpace #Wildfire #California #Insurtech
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Insurance companies have spent years running for the exits in California. Mercury Insurance just went the other way by investing in Burnbot to advance wildfire mitigation solutions the state desperately needs. Robots that eat fuel before it becomes a fire offer a far better deal than paying out after one. Congrats to the team.
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Wildfire risk isn’t just a regional issue, it’s a wealth‑protection issue. This piece from The Insurer highlights how a $5 million mitigation investment could have prevented nearly $50 billion in insured losses. The ROI on proactive risk management is clear and it’s exactly the kind of conversation we’re having with high‑net‑worth families and advisors every day. Strategic prevention and specialty coverage go hand‑in‑hand. The smartest clients aren’t just insuring; they’re mitigating. #RiskManagement #HNWInsurance #PrivateClient #WealthAdvisors #WildfireMitigation #InsuranceInnovation #FamilyOffice #PortlandBusiness

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📰 INTERVIEW: A $5 million wildfire buffer around the Palisades could have dramatically reduced damage that contributed to a $40 billion insured loss, BurnBot CEO Anukool Lakhina believes, saying robotics-enabled mitigation has become impossible for insurers to ignore. 🟢 Read the full interview >>> https://lnkd.in/enXRPD8i 🏷 BurnBot | Anukool Lakhina | Mercury Insurance | Thomson Reuters 🔒 Not a subscriber yet? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3OmPl0N 🔎 Key takeaways: ✅ "For $5 million we would have dramatically transformed the risk that ended up being a [nearly] $50 billion insured loss fire. The ROI is pretty astonishingly obvious" ✅ 200 million acres across the US need fuel treatment but the entire country treats only 2 to 3 million acres in a good year: "There's a 100x gap that needs to be filled. This is not a demand-constrained market. This is a supply-constrained market" ✅ BurnBot's robots do the same work as traditional hand crews at half the cost and five to ten times the speed, collecting before-and-after data that gives carriers verifiable evidence of risk reduction ✅ Approximately 1,100 US towns are equally or more at risk than Los Angeles was before the January fires: "It's not a question of if, but when fires will hit these towns" ✅ The business has grown fivefold since the January 2025 LA fires, with pipeline quadrupling overnight: "It felt like a COVID moment for wildfire resilience" ✅ A 1,000-acre wildfire buffer BurnBot is building in Incline Village protects approximately $6 billion of property value ✅ "This is the first time an insurance company is saying, we will invest in reducing risk, and not just focus on pricing the risk" ✅ "At some point we have to move beyond admiring the risk and actually removing the risk" ✅ Founded in 2022, BurnBot has raised $65 million in total financing with customers including PG&E, SoCal Edison, CAL FIRE and the US Forest Service #insurance #wildfire #California #BurnBot #mitigation #robots #insurtech #climaterisk #TheInsurer

BurnBot’s Lakhina says $5 million of mitigation could have dramatically reduced Palisades wildfire’s insured loss theinsurer.com

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📰 INTERVIEW: A $5 million wildfire buffer around the Palisades could have dramatically reduced damage that contributed to a $40 billion insured loss, BurnBot CEO Anukool Lakhina believes, saying robotics-enabled mitigation has become impossible for insurers to ignore. 🟢 Read the full interview >>> https://lnkd.in/enXRPD8i 🏷 BurnBot | Anukool Lakhina | Mercury Insurance | Thomson Reuters 🔒 Not a subscriber yet? Learn more here: https://bit.ly/3OmPl0N 🔎 Key takeaways: ✅ "For $5 million we would have dramatically transformed the risk that ended up being a [nearly] $50 billion insured loss fire. The ROI is pretty astonishingly obvious" ✅ 200 million acres across the US need fuel treatment but the entire country treats only 2 to 3 million acres in a good year: "There's a 100x gap that needs to be filled. This is not a demand-constrained market. This is a supply-constrained market" ✅ BurnBot's robots do the same work as traditional hand crews at half the cost and five to ten times the speed, collecting before-and-after data that gives carriers verifiable evidence of risk reduction ✅ Approximately 1,100 US towns are equally or more at risk than Los Angeles was before the January fires: "It's not a question of if, but when fires will hit these towns" ✅ The business has grown fivefold since the January 2025 LA fires, with pipeline quadrupling overnight: "It felt like a COVID moment for wildfire resilience" ✅ A 1,000-acre wildfire buffer BurnBot is building in Incline Village protects approximately $6 billion of property value ✅ "This is the first time an insurance company is saying, we will invest in reducing risk, and not just focus on pricing the risk" ✅ "At some point we have to move beyond admiring the risk and actually removing the risk" ✅ Founded in 2022, BurnBot has raised $65 million in total financing with customers including PG&E, SoCal Edison, CAL FIRE and the US Forest Service #insurance #wildfire #California #BurnBot #mitigation #robots #insurtech #climaterisk #TheInsurer

BurnBot’s Lakhina says $5 million of mitigation could have dramatically reduced Palisades wildfire’s insured loss theinsurer.com

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