Flood

Exposure data quality has a significant impact on the accuracy of results generated by a catastrophe model.

Recent events in the U.S. have focused the re/insurance industry on flood risk.

Venice has been celebrating its marriage to the sea since a military victory in the year 997, but the relationship is becoming strained.

Are your U.S. coastal risk management strategies ready for increased exposure values, rising sea levels, and slower, wetter storms?

In a blog published earlier this year, I commented on the potential future effects of arctic amplification and noted that one of them would be an increase in wildfires.

Flood control methods are used throughout the world to prevent the detrimental effects of rising water levels. In the UK permanent man-made flood defenses are dominated by four types.

Most coastal flooding in the UK is caused by extra-tropical cyclones (ETCs). The updated ETC model now incorporates storm surge and demonstrates more accurate event losses and a more certain view of risk.

My Memorial Day weekend was spent on the coast of southern Maine where a short section of shoreline is regularly damaged by storm surge.

Flood risk away from major flood plains is obviously not the same everywhere in Central Europe; learn how this risk can be characterized and assessed.

Tomorrow, May 31, is also National Dam Safety Awareness Day in the U.S. One of its goals is to highlight what people can do to prevent catastrophic dam failures and to lessen the impact should one occur.