Tropical Cyclone

With the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season on June 1 just a couple of weeks away, it's time for AIR’s Annual Hurricane Contest!

The most powerful storm to strike the Indian subcontinent in two decades, Tropical Cyclone Fani, made landfall on the coast of the state of Odisha around 8 a.m. local time on May 3.

On April 19 the National Hurricane Center (NHC) announced that it has now determined that Hurricane Michael's estimated intensity at landfall was 160 mph—enough to push Michael over the line to become a Category 5 storm.

One of a community's best defenses against natural perils is making sure that strong building codes are adopted and well-enforced.

In recent years the insurance market in China has grown rapidly, but several catastrophic typhoons have made landfall and caused major insured losses.

With the Atlantic hurricane season behind us, we can announce the winner of AIR’s third client hurricane contest.

One beachfront house survived Hurricane Michael intact—the now-famous “Sand Palace”—could we quantify the impact of its mitigating features using a catastrophe model?

With minimal vertical wind shear and a long fetch of warm water, Typhoon Haiyan had a lengthy runway to spin up to super typhoon status before it made landfall in the Philippines on November 7, 2013.

Less than 72 hours after it intensified into a named tropical storm, Michael made landfall as a strong Category 4 hurricane and obliterated portions of the Florida Panhandle.

While the fate of the communities exposed to this monster will become apparent, here is what we can expect in terms of performance of the building stock in this part of Florida.