Community Hazard Mitigation

9/10/2024 - 6 min read

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Homeowners and Insurers

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Homeowners & Insurers.

10/20/2022 - 6 min read

Will climate change lead to more hurricanes?

Verisk’s Climate Change Projections help organizations investigate how loss metrics such as average annual losses (AALs) and return period may change in the future.

9/27/2022 - 3 min read

Best practices for underwriting natural catastrophe risk

Taking into consideration the nuances of the property you’re insuring can help you take charge of multifaceted risk factors.

8/8/2022 - 3 min read

What’s going on with fire? Taking measure of a growing peril

Verisk works with fire protection, scientific, and insurance community to provide technology to manage and mitigate wildfire risk.

6/16/2022 - 4 min read

Proposed wildfire rules could reshape insurance pricing in California

California may implement new wildfire rating regulations that could impact personal and commercial property insurers.

5/25/2022 - 2 min read

Evolving exposure: Lessons from the 2021 wildfire season

In our newest wildfire report, we take the measure of another year of record-setting wildfires

3/2/2022 - 3 min read

Automating more homeowners quotes via efficient, reliable underwriting

Automated underwriting can help homeowners insurers be thorough, consistent, and fast with timely, actionable data and analytics.

8/2/2021 - 3 min read

Wildfire season turns explosive with Bootleg, Dixie fires

Massive wildfires continued to burn in Oregon and California, feeding on fuels dried by prolonged drought and weather conditions that promoted their spread

2/18/2021 - 2 min read

Preparing for a growing peril: The age of the ‘gigafire’ has begun

As dramatic as the statistics surrounding the 2020 wildfire season were, the messages they carry and the questions they raise are even more critical to address.

2/16/2021 - 2 min read

Mitigate web portal provides free data-driven resources to improve community fire protection

Mitigate provides objective, countrywide fire protection data to help fire protection officials evaluate and improve their emergency preparedness.

12/23/2020 - 5 min read

FEMA study shows stringent building codes save billions in losses from natural disasters

BCEGS was among the key sources for a FEMA study that demonstrated that building codes reduce financial losses in natural catastrophes.

8/5/2020 - 4 min read

Fast-spreading Apple Fire spurs evacuations in California

The Apple Fire prompted evacuations as it burned a portion of California’s Riverside County where 98 percent of the area was at high or extreme wildfire risk.

5/27/2020 - 1 min read

Analyzing 2019 wildfire damage and property exposure

A new Verisk white paper, "Wildfire Risk Insight: An analysis of property exposure and wildfire damage in 2019," examines wildfire from multiple angles.

3/5/2020 - 2 min read

As another wildfire season nears, explore best practices now

Recent years’ wildfire activity underscores how dynamic the risk can be as property insurers gear up for the 2020 season. Verisk’s FireLine tool can help.

7/9/2019 - 3 min read

The future of drones is up in the air – Consider the risks carefully

How drones ultimately will be used is uncertain, but it’s clear that they will likely alter the risk landscape.