The Camp Fire destroyed 95% of the buildings in the town of Paradise, CA in 2018

In May 2019, NPR reported that more than 1,000 families who were displaced by the fire were still looking for housing six months later.

The Camp Fire was the most expensive natural disaster in the world in 2018 in terms of insured losses. The firm Munich Re estimated that the fire caused $12.5 billion in covered losses and $16 billion in total losses.