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2024 RANK 1 · 18.2% · $31.46 billion

Why did my State Farm home insurance go up?

The largest U.S. homeowners writer in 2024. The California settlement is the 2025–2026 outcome this file actually confirmed.

The short answer

State Farm wrote $31.46 billion of homeowners direct premium in 2024, 18.2% of the U.S. total excluding territories, before reinsurance. A renewal that jumps can be a statewide rate change, a change in your replacement cost or other rating factors, or both. The declarations page and the rating worksheet separate those pieces. This site cannot see your worksheet. [22]

2025–2026 filings and exits

California, 2025–2026

The California Department of Insurance, Consumer Watchdog, and State Farm General Insurance Company reached a settlement on State Farm’s emergency interim rate request. The +17.0% interim rate on homeowners (non-tenant) policies stays in place. The rental-dwelling interim rate drops from +38% to +32.8%, with a refund and 10% interest back to 1 June 2025. The agreement extends the moratorium on homeowners, rental-dwelling, condominium, and renters nonrenewals and cancellations for at least one more year. The department’s release is dated in its 2026 press-release series and describes a 6 March 2026 filing of the settlement with the administrative law judge. [4]

Needs verificationNo State Farm rate order, withdrawal, or nonrenewal moratorium for 2025 or 2026 was confirmed in this review outside any state named above. That is not evidence the company filed nothing. Search SERFF Filing Access and the state department’s rate-filing search. [26]

Needs verificationThe company name on a Florida policy is often different from the company name on a Midwest policy. Read the insurer on the declarations page before you assume a California settlement, or a national news story, applies to your contract. [4]

Public rate filings are posted in SERFF Filing Access when a state participates. Search the company and the homeowners line. A filing is a request until the regulator acts on it. Unless a row above cites a regulator or company release, this review did not download that company’s SERFF PDF. [26]

Why homeowners rates are rising anyway

These are market-wide findings. They are not a State Farm rate filing, and they are not your renewal percentage.

In 2024, 715 homeowners companies with at least $50,000 of direct premium in a state had 103,289,334 policies in force and wrote $165.2 billion of direct premium, about $1,600 per policy. [19]

Adjusted for inflation, average premium per policy rose between 18.3% and 43.3% across NAIC zones from 2018 to 2024, which the NAIC describes as about 2.4% to 5.3% a year. The largest moves were in 2023 and 2024. These are zone figures. A street, a ZIP code, or one company can sit far from the zone average. [19][20]

Insurers reported 2,019,799 company-initiated homeowners nonrenewals in 2024. The rate per 1,000 policies rose between 96% and 216% by zone from 2018 to 2024. [19]

The latest state-by-state HO-3 averages republished by the Insurance Information Institute are for 2022, from NAIC data (a May 2025 NAIC study, as Triple-I describes it). The U.S. average was $1,569, up 11.2% from 2021. The figure is premium divided by house-years for the HO-3 owner-occupied form, and it includes state funds, residual markets, and some wind pools. The NAIC does not rank states and does not endorse rankings others draw from the data. [22]

Triple-I said on 17 December 2025 that structural replacement costs had risen nearly 30% over the prior five years, and it forecast 11.8% growth in homeowners net written premium for 2025. That growth figure is a forecast, not a closed result. [23]

In ISO data for 2023, republished by Triple-I, wind and hail were 42.5% of homeowners incurred losses, water damage and freezing 22.6%, and fire and lightning 21.6%. About 5.3% of insured homes had a claim. The ISO tables exclude Alaska, Texas, and Puerto Rico, so they are not a Texas loss split. [22]

What to do if the bill or the letter arrives

  1. Find three dates: the date the notice was mailed, the date the policy expires, and the date the company says coverage ends.
  2. Read the reason. “Underwriting reasons,” with nothing under it, is not an explanation you can appeal or fix.
  3. Decide which letter you have. A nonrenewal, a mid-term cancellation, and a renewal that cuts coverage or raises the price are different notices, and states time them differently.
  4. Keep paying the current policy until a new one is bound. A gap can put a mortgage into force-placed insurance, which protects the lender first.
  5. Ask the company, in writing, for the declarations page, the replacement-cost estimate, and which rating factors changed.
  6. If a mortgage company is on the policy, tell them you are replacing coverage before the old policy ends.
  7. Shop admitted insurers. If you cannot find one, use the residual-market note on your state page. A FAIR plan or Citizens policy is often narrower than the policy you had.
  8. Compare deductibles before you accept a lower premium. A percentage hurricane or wind deductible is a share of the dwelling limit, not a flat $1,000.
  9. If the notice looks late or states no real reason, complain to the state insurance department and keep the envelope or the electronic-delivery record.
  10. Ask about a mitigation credit only where the company will put the discount in writing: a new roof, opening protection, or defensible space, depending on the peril.

The day count depends on the state. Open the non-renewal guideor the premium calculator.

State Farm by state

Combined pages exist where the search demand is highest. Every state still has its own notice page.

All states

Questions people type

Why did my State Farm home insurance go up?

The largest U.S. homeowners writer in 2024. The California settlement is the 2025–2026 outcome this file actually confirmed. A higher bill can be a statewide rate change, a higher replacement cost, or a change in the rating factors on your house. Market-wide, inflation-adjusted premiums rose 18.3% to 43.3% by NAIC zone from 2018 to 2024, and Triple-I said replacement costs were up nearly 30% over five years. Those figures are not your percentage. [19][23]

Did State Farm leave my state in 2025 or 2026?

The only 2025–2026 actions confirmed on this page are the ones in the filings section. Anything else needs verification in SERFF or your state department’s filing search. [26]

What should I do if State Farm nonrenews me?

Read the mailing date, the expiration date, and the reason. Compare the gap with your state’s notice statute, keep the current policy until a new one is bound, and file a complaint with the state insurance department if the notice looks late or has no real reason. The legal entity named on the declarations page is the company that has to follow that statute. [27]

Sources reviewed 2026-10-14

Open the document. The sentence above is only as current as that reading.

  1. [4] Press release 012-2026: State Farm settlement on the emergency interim rate. California Department of Insurance. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://www.insurance.ca.gov/0400-news/0100-press-releases/2026/release012-2026.cfm
  2. [19] Examining Homeowner Property Insurance Market Dynamics, 2018–2024 (31 July 2026). NAIC Center for Insurance Policy and Research. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://content.naic.org/sites/default/files/mcas-homeowners-property-insurance-market-dynamics-report.pdf
  3. [20] NAIC release on the 2018–2024 homeowners market analysis. National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://content.naic.org/article/naic-releases-first-its-kind-national-analysis-homeowners-insurance-market-trends
  4. [22] Facts + statistics: homeowners and renters insurance. Insurance Information Institute (Triple-I). Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-homeowners-and-renters-insurance
  5. [23] Triple-I press release, 17 December 2025, homeowners market brief. Insurance Information Institute. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://www.iii.org/press-release/triple-i-homeowners-insurance-market-shows-early-signs-of-stabilization-as-post-covid-inflation-pressures-level-set-into-new-normal-for-risk-pricing-121625
  6. [26] SERFF Filing Access. NAIC. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://filingaccess.serff.com/sfa/home/
  7. [27] State insurance department directory. National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Reviewed 2026-10-14. https://content.naic.org/state-insurance-departments