Building code effectiveness and enforcement are vital to a community’s risk mitigation and something most insurers consider highly important when underwriting a property…
The 2017 Verisk Risk & Analytics Summit will be held in Jersey City October 4-6, 2017. Earlybird registration is now open.
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…
The very existence of residents and businessowners in coastal communities depends on the tides, but there’s also an ebb and flow that affects building codes.
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,…
Communities throughout America are just like Rocky Balboa. Despite being assaulted by many massive tornadoes, hurricanes, superstorms, wildfires, and other major…
Robert Andrews, vice president and chief field operations officer, Verisk Insurance Solutions, interviews Leslie Chapman-Henderson of the nonprofit Federal Alliance for…
An analysis by ISO Community Hazard Mitigation shows states participating in BCEGS® show markedly improved building code adoption and enforcement.
Weighing the pros and cons of solar roofs from an environmental and safety perspective.
One of the central topics facing the fire service is the fact that trends indicate fire risk has been growing in the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
California leads U.S., with most households at high or extreme risk from wildfires, according to the 2015 Verisk Wildfire Risk Analysis.
Insurers can better understand property flood risk by surveying exposures and accounting for building characteristics at the point of underwriting.
Verisk GIS database records 7.5 million fire hydrants in the United States, including the precise location and condition of each.
New methodology for Public Protection Classification (PPC) grades will allow resurvey of nearly 48,000 communities every few years.
Verisk LOCATION PPC database allows rural insurers to assign a Public Protection Classification (PPC) code by section/township/range.