Fire Prevention
Slow progress reported against destructive Carr Fire
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…
Educating the community on fire safety—the benefit to insurers
ISO Community Hazard Mitigation actively works with fire departments, building departments, water suppliers, and municipalities with our Public Protection Classification…
Celebrating International Firefighters’ Day
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 records 8.9 million fire hydrants in the United States
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…
The danger of combustible exteriors on tall buildings
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…
Still-raging Thomas Fire proves tough challenge for firefighters
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…
California's December wildfires: Assessing the risk
To get a preliminary view of risk within the wildfire-affected areas of California, we used FireLine—Verisk’s wildfire risk management tool.
AIR updates insured loss estimates for California wildfires
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…
AIR estimates losses for California wildfires
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.
California’s wildfires: A preliminary view of insured loss
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…
Escaping ‘escape room’ risk
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.…
Key findings from the 2017 Verisk wildfire risk analysis
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…
Report sparks conversation about fires by occupancy or property type
Although commercial fires are less frequent than residential fires, the property damage these incidents cause is disproportionately higher, with losses in manufacturing…
The critical function of water in fighting fire risk
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…
Human activity dramatically increases the duration of wildfire season
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,…