FEMA Flood Zones, also known as Special Flood Hazard Area or SFHA for short, are established by Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to identify areas at high risk of flooding due to topography and/or man-made alterations like dams, levees, and bridges. When purchasing a property it is critical to know if you are in an […]
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Florida Wind-Borne Debris Zones
Each year in Florida, an average of more than 240 wind-borne debris incidents result in damage to property, injury or death. HazardHub’s Florida Wind Borne Debris zones estimate the maximum wind speed for any location in the state. The zones determine what wind speed your property needs to withstand. The HazardHub API can tell you […]
NOAA Special Winds Regions
A Special Winds Region is an area that has the potential to be hazardous due to wind. A region can be classified as a Special Winds Region if it meets two or more of the following criteria: The average daily sustained surface wind speeds are at least 50 knots (54 mph) for 20 days per […]
INSTECH London Podcast with Bob Frady and John Siegman
Good data helps insurers to price and manage risks more effectively, but only if the right information is available, affordable and easy to integrate into underwriting processes. HazardHub are providing solutions to those challenges by supplying insurers with data for perils like flood and wildfire and unique property risk information, including the location of every fire hydrant in the US. The company […]
HazardHub adds New Sea Level Rise data from 1 to 10 Feet
HazardHub, the nation’s fastest-growing supplier of geospatial risk data, is excited to announce the introduction of Sea Level Rise calculations to their award-winning risk API. Brady Foust, Ph.D., and Chief Scientist of HazardHub says, “We are very excited to add Sea Level Rise data to our suite of hazard risk data. The data is highly […]
How Mutual Capital Analytics Revealed the Route to Predicting Fire Loss Performance with HazardHub
Creative Use of Data + Experience + Curiosity = Moving Past the Status Quo to Unimagined Solutions for identifying fire losses. Client’s Situation Many carriers are currently challenged by significant increases in the frequency and severity of fire losses in their personal and commercial books of business. MCA’s client was having similar fire-loss challenges with […]
