Public Protection Classification

Advances in automatic fire and smoke detection, central station alarms, and automatic sprinklers have helped property losses decline slightly in the last decade. But despite the best efforts of...

As more builders use wood as the primary building component in modern buildings, there’s a growing concern for fire safety during the construction process. Large volumes of wood at construction...

ISO had the honor to host this year’s International Fire Service Leaders (IFSL) Symposium here at the Verisk Analytics home office in Jersey City. I was thrilled to help organize the event along wi...

New green products and technologies are constantly becoming available to homeowners and businesses. One of the more intriguing innovations for city dwellers is vegetative roofs. They’re eco-friendl...

ISO’s Public Protection Classification (PPC™) program recognizes the efforts of communities to provide structural fire protection services for citizens and property owners. Insurance companies use...

The ISO Community Hazard Mitigation staff visits a lot of fire departments in our quest to evaluate the quality of public fire protection for our Public Protection Classification (PPC™) program. As...

The FDNY Foundation recently hosted its 20th annual dinner in Manhattan, celebrating both the foundation and the 150th anniversary of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). The dinner honored...

The content below appears in the Q1 2015 issue of Visualize , a quarterly magazine from Verisk Insurance Solutions that contains commentary and insights about auto and property underwriting. You’ll...

ISO’s Public Protection Classification (PPC™) program gets a lot of rightful attention for its positive effect on local fire service. After all, it provides an impartial assessment of a fire distri...

Need a fire hydrant? ISO has millions of them. We reached another important data milestone at the start of 2015, with 7.5 million hydrants plotted and mapped in our national database. You can read...