According to data from insurance shopping site Insurify, in 2025, the national average cost of homeowners insurance is projected to rise by 8%, reaching $3,520 annually by the end of the year. This comes after insurance costs rose 9% in 2024 and 20% between 2021 and 2023. For existing homeowners, and those looking to become homeowners, this means that as of September 2024, 32% of the average single-family mortgage payment went to property taxes and insurance, according to data from the Intercontinental Exchange. This is the highest rate recorded since Intercontinental Exchange began tracking this data in 2014. In Louisiana, as of mid-August 2025, on average 18.2% of a homeowner’s monthly mortgage payment was going to insurance alone, according to data from Realtor.com. Florida (17.0%), Oklahoma (14.7%), Mississippi (11.2%), Alabama (11.1%), Texas (10.3%) and Nebraska (10.0%) rounded out the top seven. Researchers at New York University, Rice University and the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas believe these rate increases are responsible for an additional 149,000 mortgages becoming delinquent between mid-2022 and mid-2023 that would otherwise have remained stable. “A big driver of insurance premiums is replacement costs,” Mark Friedlander, the director of corporate communications at III, says. “If we look at 2019 through 2022, we saw a 55% cumulative replacement cost increase — that is nearly four times the Consumer Price Index increase during that same period.” Friedlander attributes much of this increase to the supply chain disruption and labor shortages caused by the pandemic. Data from the III shows that replacement costs have moderated over the past few years, and the organization is projecting a low, single-digit increase in replacement costs. Another driver of rising insurance premium costs, according to the III, is the population shifts occurring nationwide. “We’re seeing the largest growth in coastal areas particularly — Texas, Florida, some Southeast states — more people are moving to areas that are prone to landfalling hurricanes. When you put more people in harm’s way, as the cost to rebuild increases, that is going to raise your costs as well.” Data from the III shows that $60 billion in damage was caused by severe convective storm losses in 2023, higher than all the combined hurricane damage from that year.