FireLine, Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool, is guiding analysis of risk factors seen within the Carr Fire’s perimeter. FireLine categorized more than 99 percent of…
ISO Community Hazard Mitigation actively works with fire departments, building departments, water suppliers, and municipalities with our Public Protection Classification…
May 4 is International Firefighters’ Day, a time to honor the dedicated men and women who put themselves at risk to protect our communities and, of course, to remember…
Verisk reached a national milestone this past February with the recording of 8.9 million hydrants in its GIS fire hydrant database. The GIS database is the only one of…
In the wake of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, the London Fire Brigade asked Verisk to perform an analysis on buildings in the UK that have similar characteristics to…
Using FireLine—Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool—to analyze risk factors seen within the Thomas Fire’s perimeter, Verisk has determined that areas considered to be…
To get a preliminary view of risk within the wildfire-affected areas of California, we used FireLine—Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool.
Verisk’s AIR Worldwide has updated its loss estimates for the recent California Wildfires after analyzing findings from its damage survey conducted during the week of…
Verisk estimates that industy insured losses from the Tubbs, Pocket, Nuns, Atlas, Redwood, and Sulphur fires in California will be between $2 to $3 billion.
To get a preliminary view of risk within the wildfire-affected areas in California, Verisk used FireLine—our wildfire risk management tool – to analyze two of the largest…
Escape rooms, where, for a fee, people are intentionally locked in and must find clues and solve intellectual puzzles in a certain amount of time to escape, are popular.…
California emerged from a long drought only to plunge into a heightened wildfire season. In fact, wildfires are up in many of the 13 wildfire-prone states Verisk analyzed…
Although commercial fires are less frequent than residential fires, the property damage these incidents cause is disproportionately higher, with losses in manufacturing…
A community’s water supply is something insurers need to consider to properly manage risks and underwrite policies. This article examines three major impacts on water for…
According to a report published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, "human-ignited wildfires accounted for 84 percent of all wildfires,…