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The cost of living in Barrie tends to be less expensive than Toronto, but keeping expenses low is still a priority for many people.
Purchasing home insurance is one of the most important steps you’ll take as a homeowner. Whether you’re living in a house, townhouse, condo or rental, it’s easy to get a competitive rate when you know what to look for and where to look.
RATESDOTCA offers a fast and free tool for finding the best home insurance in Barrie at the lowest rate.
Due to increasing incidents of severe weather across the country, we recommend Canadians in every part of the country consider adding additional home insurance protection, beyond what’s already included in most policies.
While many home insurance policies cover common perils such as damage from fire, hail and water, policyholders must often add coverage for protection against flooding.
Insurance providers make a distinction between different types of flooding. Their policies will variously refer to protection from groundwater, overland, tidal and sewer backup flooding.
In other instances, they offer water protection packages which will protect against a combination of flood types.
In general, we encourage you to get additional coverage for the type of flooding that is relevant to your area. For example, protection against tidal flooding isn’t necessary for Barrie residents.
It’s also a good idea to consider installing a sump pump or backflow valve. These are tools that help prevent water from flooding the home during a severe weather event.
Many home insurance policies name windstorms as a peril against which the home is protected.
The protection usually includes losses caused by flying debris or falling branches or trees as well as losses to your home and contents from water or snow entering through sudden openings caused by wind or hail.
This is good news for Barrie residents who may be familiar with tornados which have occasionally touched down in the area, including one that destroyed 150 homes in July 2021. The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates the tornado caused more than $75 million in insured damages.
If the homeowner and residents have to relocate while a home is being repaired, most policies will cover the cost of additional living expenses.
We recommend that Barrie residents confirm what losses are covered under your specific home insurance policy.
Earthquakes are named in many insurance policies as exclusions. This means they are not covered unless the policyholder has it added to the policy.
While earthquakes are not common in Barrie, they’re not unheard of. In June 2010, a magnitude 5 earthquake hit central Ontario and parts of Quebec.
By adding earthquake coverage to your policy, you may be subject to a higher deductible, but will be covered for damage to your home that results from the ground shaking.
Have more questions about home insurance in Barrie? Find the answers here.
Location is one of most significant factors that determines your home insurance premium, but it’s not the only factor. The house itself, it’s state of repair and the insurance claims history of the policyholder are also relevant.
In general, insurance providers aim to gauge how likely you are to make a claim. Those who can reflect that they’re a lower risk are likely to pay less.
There are also steps any policyholder can take to reduce your premiums, including:
In 2020, the average premium for home insurance in Ontario was $1,284, while the average premium for home insurance in Barrie was $1,040.
In general, home insurance rates across Canada have been increasing due, in part, to an increasing volume of claims from extreme weather incidents.
When you’re getting insurance for a home in Barrie, we recommend you consider getting additional protection for flooding.
While Barrie isn’t uniquely prone to flooding, there have been increased incidents of severe weather across Canada. Since most home insurance policies name flood protection as an exclusion, it’s prudent to add it to your coverage. This is especially true if your home in Barrie is near a waterway such as the shores of Lake Simcoe.
While Barrie has been the site of two tornadoes in recent history, including a deadly one in 1985 and another in 2021, damage from wind is included as a covered peril in most home insurance policies. If you’re insuring a home in Barrie, we recommend that you confirm you’ll be protected against damage from windstorms.
Insured perils include those listed below:
Since barrie has been the site of tornados in recent history, we recommend that you confirm that the wind damage named in your policy will protect your home and its contents against damage from tornados.
Water damage does not include protection against flooding. We recommend that you purchase additional flood protection.
Other uninsured perils generally include damage from:
The amount of coverage you get will influence the cost of your insurance. In general, you’ll have a higher premium for more coverage.
However, you can get good coverage at an affordable price by comparison shopping. Use our free online tool to compare rates from the best providers in the country.
Other saving tactics include:
*Shoppers in Ontario who obtained a home insurance quote on RATESDOTCA from January to December 2023 saved an average amount of $360. The average savings amount represents the difference between the shoppers’ average lowest quoted premium and the average of the second and third lowest quoted premiums generated by RATESDOTCA. Excludes tenant and condo insurance.
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Katie Rook was a content manager at RATESDOTCA, specializing in home insurance. She has been a full-time reporter at CTV, National Post, and The Globe and Mail. Her work has also appeared in Dow Jones’ MarketWatch, Toronto Star, Toronto Life, Saint John Telegraph-Journal and VICE. Katie is a graduate of Ryerson and Dalhousie universities.
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