The Ghost of Hurricane Katrina Haunts Catastrophe Modelers August 29, 2025 By Gautam Naik When Hurricane Katrina slammed into New Orleans in August 2005, causing greater insurance losses than any other natural disaster in...
Hurricane Erin Is Disrupting Both Europe’s Weather and Forecasts August 22, 2025 By Joe Wertz Hurricane Erin is muddling computer models and making forecasters, analysts and traders question the accuracy of the outlook for heat,...
KCC Completes Review of California Wildfire Model August 1, 2025 The California Department of Insurance completed a review of the KCC US Wildfire Reference Model Version 3.0, making it the...
Oregon Legislature Repeals Contested Wildfire Hazard Map June 27, 2025 By Claire Rush Oregon lawmakers have voted to repeal the state’s contentious wildfire hazard map, which subjected homeowners in certain areas at high...
India Debuts New Weather Model to Help Farming, Flood Planning May 27, 2025 By Mary Hui and Rakesh Sharma The southwest monsoon’s early arrival in India this year is good news for crops, but exactly when, where, and how...
Get Ready for Another Busy Atlantic Hurricane Season May 22, 2025 By Seth Borenstein With warmer than normal ocean waters, forecasters are expecting yet another unusually busy hurricane season for the Atlantic. But they...
AI Weather Models Promise Super Granular, Specialist Forecasts April 14, 2025 By Mary Hui The weather forecasting industry has made big leaps in accuracy but has struggled with hyper-local predictions. But the proliferation of...
Verisk Buy of Nasdaq Subsidiary Gains Access to Hundreds of Catastrophe Models April 2, 2025 Verisk said today it has acquired Nasdaq subsidiary Simplitium Limited, the owner and operator Nasdaq Risk Modelling for Catastrophes (NRMC)....
KCC Estimates Losses From Palisades and Eaton Wildfires to Be Near $28B January 23, 2025 Catastrophe modeler KCC said insured loss from privately insured and California FAIR plan policies to residential, commercial and industrial properties,...
Wildfire-Risk Models Are Struggling to Predict LA-Style Fires January 22, 2025 By Gautam Naik Among natural disasters, wildfires are the great unknown. Even the most-sophisticated scientific models fail to capture all the risk factors...