Extreme Event Risk

Hail and Severe Thunderstorm Solutions

Verisk’s hail and severe thunderstorm solutions help you mitigate the risk of hail, straight-line winds, and tornadoes with insights and analytics.

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Managing the impacts of hail

Data and analytics can help insurers detect hail damage more quickly, leading to faster claims processing and payments, and a near-real-time view of the frequency and severity of outbreaks across the United States.

Managing the impacts of hail

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Features and capabilities

Explore the solutions Verisk offers to help organizations assess, mitigate, and transfer their hail and severe thunderstorm risk.

Hail exposure and damage

Help identify past hail damage—and the risk of more to come.

Learn about Hail Risk Assessment

High-resolution aerial imagery

Uncover risks and bring application data to life with high-resolution aerial imagery.

Learn about Aerial Imagery Analytics

Predictive analytics for natural disasters

Get ahead of the damage with insights from real-time weather data feeds to improve operational performance and decision-making.

Learn about Respond

Interactive weather visualization and analytics platform

This GIS mapping and analytics tool helps you evaluate, understand, and respond to the impacts of significant weather-related risks and events.

Learn about Respond MAP

Claims solutions weather verification reports

Property-specific hail, straight-line wind, hurricane wind, and lightning data to help you verify damage and date of loss.

Learn about Benchmark

Severe thunderstorm risk models

Manage your severe thunderstorm risk with a complete view of risk of hail, straight-line winds, and tornadoes.

Learn about Severe Thunderstorm Risk Models

A white paper series keeping pace with changing risk amid the climate-driven growth of natural hazards.

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Related resources

Stay up to date on the latest Verisk research, news, and advancements around hail and severe thunderstorm risk.

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Extreme Event Solutions Client Portal

Access client-confidential downloads, training, and documentation for Verisk's extreme event solutions model, software, and service offerings.

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White paper

Ice, Fire, Wind, and Water

Examine recent activity, trends, and data-driven tools that can help measure and mitigate risk surrounding destructive categories of hazards.

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Article

Severe thunderstorms and hail: Concentrated events that pack a punch

Severe thunderstorms are a common natural phenomenon in the US, causing more than half of annual reported insured losses since 1985.

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Article

What happens after catastrophes? Protection in a time of loss

Despite mitigation measures, natural hazards may still cause damage, and insurers need actionable data to guide underwriting and pricing.

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Article

Hail in Southern California: Making sense of hail’s changing geography

Hail is spreading out into new regions of the country that aren’t traditionally exposed to hail risk.

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Infographic

Key perils to watch

Natural hazards are increasing in frequency and severity. Insurers should ask themselves three key questions while managing peril risk.

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Case study

Taking cover: Mastering the challenges of roof risk

Analyzing roof risk calls for a broad perspective—not only having current, reliable data, but knowing how to apply it in the market.

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Article

Mastering the many aspects of roof condition with multisource data

Homeowners insurers may struggle to capture roof condition, but imagery analytics can help assess risk and opportunities for mitigation.

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Resources

About Catastrophe Modeling

In the case of rare but severe events, historical loss information is often unreliable in assessing future loss potential – that's where catastrophe modeling comes in.

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