State Farm has received more than 8,700 claims from the Los Angeles fires alone and paid more than $1 billion to customers, according to the company. The insurer expects to pay out significantly more, and the fires will be the costliest in the history of State Farm, the company said.

For the second time in the past six months, State Farm insurance executives, on Monday, requested an emergency rate hike, this time of up to 22%. This comes on the heals of $1B in payouts due to the LA area fires.

State Farm, the largest home insurer in California, is asking for an emergency rate hike from state regulators as it warns that multibillion-dollar payouts from the Los Angeles wildfires threaten its balance sheet and the broader insurance market.

State Farm, the largest insurance company in California, has asked state regulators to immediately approve a steep rate hike for homeowners to prevent a “dire situation” for its customers and the broader insurance market in the wake of the disastrous Los Angeles wildfires.

State Farm wrote in a letter on Monday that the recent fires in Los Angeles threaten its finances and are “the costliest in the history of the company.”

The state’s largest home insurance company, State Farm wants to raise its rates. The company said it’s in a dire financial situation because of the recent wildfires in Southern California. The wind-driven wildfires in Los Angeles area that started off the year and it destroyed more than 10,000 homes.

California's largest private insurer, State Farm, on Monday urged the state's insurance regulator to approve an emergency hike in rates to help offset the hefty payouts the company is making after devastating wildfires in Los Angeles last month.