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According to the article, they didn't renew 14,180 house policies, the article also links to another article where 72,000 policies were not renewed. 86,180 uninsurable houses are awknoladged by the article.
But, california has 13 million households. This means that 7 tenths of a percent of calofornia's houses became uninsurable this year.
Insurance companies choosing to not insure a tiny fraction of the most at risk houses is not them "pulling out of California's troubled homeowners insurance market" (sic) nor is it an "exodus."
This article has some major spin, and greatly overstates the importance of what's happening. They mention a big number of houses without context, to try and convince you this is a deeply concerning thing. Unless you own one of the forest houses in question, this isn't abig deal.
I have yet to see any evidence that any of these coverage denials are related to being in any sort of higher risk area. We're not talking about houses in the forest, or on coastal bluffs, or next to the beach, etc. That's just a smoke screen to cover their incentives to put out news stories like this so they can pressure regulators to allow them to charge more for insurance.
This article doesn't discuss locations whatsoever. I have yet to see any evidence either way. If you find something do let us know.
All of the articles speculate climate change is a factor, and I think that's one of the things that the insurers quoted in the initial news. However, there was no evidence that was the case.
I live in CA and try to keep track of things like this. These are two smaller companies along with many others that have stopped insuring homes in CA.
Households and houses are not at all the same thing. One apartment building could have over a hundred households.