Boat storage here (Miami FL) is crazy expensive... cheapest you'll find is $9 a foot and that is at a very sketchy place. If it's at a marina $25 a foot for dry storage..

In the back of my warehouse they rent parking spaces for $110 a month plus tax. Among the "highlights" there was a Vega on a trailer, been there 25+ years, rotting in the sun, a double trailer with 4 rotted Sea Doos and a "mini-Winni RV" with tags that expired in 2007. The owner of the Vega realized that after blowing 30K+ in storage fees the rusty Vega will never hit the road, they sent the whole package to the scrap yard. The tongue rotted off the sea doo double trailer so that is completely gone, the seats on the sea doos are now just exposed foam/no vinyl at all. The Mini Winni has a serious roof separation/leak going on so that one is likely a scrap yard candidate.

Yeah, storage is usually a huge waste of good money............. There are likely a dozen spots being used by stuff that should be thrown away.

This fire burned long and hot and per fire expert it's doubtful a cause will be determined.

It's sad when it could have been avoided. Bosch makes a camera that can detect smoke and fire even when it's very small, it also doubles as a security camera. I have worked with companies that are at extreme risk for fire with self combusting products and we have saved them millions of dollars by detecting fires when they are still easily extinguishable.

We pay for it eventually, every claim that is made increases policies a crossed the board for boaters.

I got divorced, and in the middle of it all, we had an agreed division of household goods, etc., so I moved my part to a storage facility, thinking I'd be buying a new house in a couple of months. 2-1/2 years of divorce proceeding later, and ending up dead arse broke, I continued to keep that furniture and stuff in storage (unseen) for another 8 or 9 years. I decided to go over to get some of it, and quickly realized I paid thousands of dollars in storage for now decades old, broken down and dirty, worthless crap! I ended up having to pay someone to come in and haul it off! Needless to say, I've not lived that screwup down yet, and that was 20 years ago!!! LOL!

Hate to hear about such a loss of boats. Fire is a total destroyer!