2017

On Saturday, September 16, an AIR damage survey team headed to southwest Florida to conduct damage surveys following Hurricane Irma's second US landfall on Marco Island.

Just south of Tokyo on September 15, 1947, Typhoon Kathleen made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane.

The Atlantic Hurricane Season has only just recently passed its peak (September 10) and there is a lot more time left. But this year is already going into the record books for many reasons.

Even as all eyes were on Irma's destructive path through the Caribbean and its approach toward Florida, AIR's damage survey team were in Houston, TX, studying the flood damage caused by Hurricane Harvey's record-breaking precipitation.

AIR's damage survey team arrived in Texas on Tuesday evening and spent Wednesday in Rockport, a small coastal city that took the brunt of Category 4 Harvey's wind speeds at landfall.

While it may sound strange, in many ways the people in Rockport, Texas, whose homes were destroyed by the strong winds that accompanied Hurricane Harvey, are the lucky ones. It is the people who suffered from Harvey's other major peril—the devastating flooding—that are in far worse shape.

Harvey has rewritten the record books for daily to total rainfall records for many locales across the state of Texas, as well as the continental United States.

Hurricane Harvey's recorded 130 mph winds and 3 meter storm surge—and the damage they caused—were certainly noteworthy, but they are not what people will remember.

Among the products and services it has updated for the 2017 hurricane season, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) included a smaller cone of uncertainty. What does that mean?

Twenty-five years ago on August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew slammed into Florida and became the costliest natural disaster in U.S. history. What would the consequences be for the insurance industry if an Andrew-like Category 5 hurricane were to strike Miami today?