Here’s a number worth sitting with: 1 in every 60 insured homes in the U.S. files a water damage claim every single year, according to HouseCashin’s 2026 water damage statistics report. That’s 1.6% of all insured households, and when it happens, the average payout runs $13,954. Zoom out even further and the picture gets more … Read more
Here’s a number that stopped me in my tracks: if you water an average-sized lawn for just 20 minutes a day, every day, for a week, you’ve used roughly as much water as running your shower nonstop for four straight days, or taking more than 800 showers, according to the EPA’s WaterSense program. That’s not … Read more
Out of 290,599 hospital discharges tied to home improvement projects in a single year, 117,026 were finger injuries, which works out to roughly four in ten trips to the ER, according to Clearsurance’s analysis of national emergency-room data. That single number beat every other body part and every other injury category the analysis tracked, which … Read more
Only 41.1% of mortgaged homes in the United States are now considered “equity-rich,” meaning the owner has at least 50% equity built up against the home’s value. A year ago that number was 47.4%. That’s a 6.3 percentage point drop in a single year, and it puts the national equity-rich share at its lowest point … Read more
Somewhere in the United States right now, termites are working their way through the framing of a house whose owner has no idea anything is wrong. That’s not a dramatic guess. It’s the ongoing reality behind Orkin’s termite statistics, which put the number of U.S. homes damaged by termites each year at roughly 600,000, with … Read more
More than 200 people in the United States die every year from carbon monoxide produced by ordinary household products, according to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s own Carbon Monoxide Fact Sheet. Not from house fires. Not from a car left running in a closed garage. Just from the appliances so many of us keep … Read more
A fast-moving wildfire northwest of Reno has grown to more than 13,000 acres and remains at zero percent containment, threatening roughly 1,000 homes across Washoe County, Nevada, after igniting the evening of August 22. Governor Declares State of Emergency Nevada Governor Joe Lombardo declared a state of emergency for Washoe County as the Hawk Fire … Read more
Something genuinely strange happened in American backyards in 2025. According to the 2026 National Gardening Survey from Garden Research, the research division of the National Gardening Association, U.S. households spent a record $79.0 billion on gardening last year, up 13.5% from 2024. Spending per gardening household climbed even faster, jumping 18.3% to $740. And in … Read more
Open your closet right now and somewhere in there, folded or hung and completely untouched, is roughly $300 you’ve already spent and will probably never get the use out of. That’s not a guilt trip — it’s the finding from a StudyFinds-reported consumer survey, and if your closet looks anything like most people’s, you already … Read more
If you own a home in New Jersey, your property tax bill this year averaged $10,499. If you own a nearly identical home in West Virginia, you paid $1,081. That’s not a typo, and it’s not a fluke of one unusual county. According to ATTOM’s 2025 Annual Property Tax Report, the average U.S. single-family home … Read more