Flood

11/7/2025 - 9 min read

Through the Eye of the Storm: A Hurricane Katrina Retrospective

Twenty years later, Verisk leaders recall Hurricane Katrina's impact on August 29, 2005, and how the watershed event reshaped the reinsurance industry forever.

9/10/2024 - 6 min read

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Homeowners and Insurers

Hurricane Preparedness and Recovery for Homeowners & Insurers.

8/22/2023 - 3 min read

Hurricanes: The current threat and the future warning signals

As climate change unfolds, hurricanes give a high-profile glimpse into the potential effects of a warming world.

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.

6/13/2022 - 5 min read

Is New Orleans Safe from Another Katrina Like Storm Surge

Hurricane Katrina is greatly known for its level of devastation in New Orleans, but how has the city prepared to protect themselves against a similar storm?

10/25/2021 - 3 min read

Sewer backup: Paddling into flood insurance insights

When confronting the sewer backup peril, understanding both coverage & related weather factors can help you better understand and account for your policyholders' exposure

7/26/2021 - 14 min read

Quantifying Flood Risk in the United States

Gain insight into the industry loss potential from all sources of flooding and Verisk’s solutions.

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.

11/3/2020 - 4 min read

From autonomous vehicles to COVID-19, a changing world multiplies risks and opportunities

Drones, autonomous vehicles, legal marijuana, floods, and pandemics are among the developing challenges for the insurance industry.

5/6/2020 - 4 min read

Commercial properties may be shut, but it’s open season for spring flooding

The COVID-19 pandemic has the full attention of commercial insurance policyholders, but an active spring flooding forecast still presents a range of threats.

9/16/2019 - 2 min read

Addressing the global catastrophe protection gap

The “protection gap” illustrates insurers’ potential for growth and society’s need for protection. Learn more in AIR Worldwide's Global Modeled Catastrophe Losses report.

8/22/2019 - 2 min read

Private personal flood market whips up a wave of opportunity

Private personal flood insurance market has new tools and data to support a comeback—and substantial, measurable potential for insurers that are ready to make strategic moves.

4/8/2019 - 4 min read

Flooding on Russian River highlights a measurable exposure

The near-record flooding of Guerneville, California, from the overflowing the Russian River in late February was a remarkable but foreseeable event. Extensive data supported classification of virtually the entire town as being at least at moderate risk of flooding, with the vast majority of locations at high or extreme risk.

3/8/2019 - 2 min read

AER and team demonstrate benefits of using machine learning in subseasonal-to-seasonal forecasting

A team from Verisk's Atmospheric and Environmental Research (AER), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Microsoft Research, and Stanford University published an opinion article in WIREs Climate Change on the benefits of applying machine learning to the practice of subseasonal-to-seasonal (S2S) weather prediction.

10/24/2018 - 1 min read

WaterLine offers location-specific risk analytics for flood

As growing numbers of U.S. homes and businesses become vulnerable to flooding, private insurers are seeing a potential new pathway for profitable growth—but they need underwriting tools to help them launch or refine programs to cover this risk.