AIR Worldwide

10/12/2017 - 14 min read

Top 10 historical hurricanes: What would they cost today?

Before this summer’s hurricanes Harvey and Irma broke the 11-year “drought” of major U.S. hurricane landfalls, most people probably thought that as many as six of the top 10 U.S. storms occurred in 2004 and 2005.

9/11/2017 - 6 min read

AIR estimates insured losses for Hurricane Irma’s impacts in the United States

9/6/2017 - 7 min read

AIR releases estimates for total property damage, insured losses from Harvey

8/31/2017 - 6 min read

Unprecedented flooding as Hurricane Harvey stalled and soaked Texas

8/28/2017 - 10 min read

AIR estimates insured losses for Hurricane Harvey’s winds and storm surge

2/22/2017 - 11 min read

U.S. Earthquake Model Update Enhances View of Wood Frame Vulnerability

The update to AIR Earthquake Model for the US includes vulnerability assessment of non-engineered wood frame construction, the majority of resident buildings in the US

10/14/2016 - 3 min read

AIR: Hurricane Matthew insured losses may approach $9 billion

Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide estimates insured property losses along Hurricane Matthew’s deadly and destructive track up through the Caribbean and the southeastern United States coastline will be between USD 2.8 Billion and USD 8.8 Billion.

8/28/2016 - 1 min read

Learn more about AIR's modeled insured loss estimates for the United States

11/26/2012 - 3 min read

Taking A Comprehensive View of Catastrophe Risk Worldwide

The events of 2011 prompted the insurance industry to consider how to put the resulting losses in perspective. This white paper examines how AIR's global exceedance probability curve helps address the following questions: 1) how frequent are loss years like 2011; 2) what percentage of losses were modeled; and finally, 3) are natural catastrophe events becoming more frequent and/or more severe?