Extreme Weather Resilience
Protect your business from the increasing risks of extreme weather with expert risk management solutions.
Building resilience against extreme weather risks
Extreme weather is one of today’s most urgent business challenges. Increasing frequency and severity of heatwaves, flooding, wildfires, storms, and other natural hazards threaten critical infrastructure, operations, and supply chains worldwide. Organizations must understand and manage these risks to protect people, property, and long-term viability.
Zurich Resilience Solutions provides guidance to help organizations identify, assess, and adapt to evolving weather-related risks. By leveraging over 150 years of risk expertise and extensive loss data, Zurich Resilience Solutions helps businesses anticipate hazards and implement practical strategies to reduce potential impacts.
Using advanced analytics combined with on-site assessments by experienced risk professionals, Zurich Resilience Solutions delivers comprehensive insights into your specific exposures. This enables tailored risk management plans that safeguard physical assets and maintain business continuity under severe weather conditions.
We work with trusted vendors to ensure our customers’ needs are met, offering end-to-end support from portfolio-level risk analysis to detailed location-specific evaluations. Our approach empowers organizations to enhance operational resilience and meet increasing expectations from regulators and stakeholders on managing extreme weather impacts.
Protecting operations from the impact of extreme weather
Understanding natural hazard exposure helps organizations prepare for and reduce the consequences of extreme weather events. With expert-led analysis and advanced modeling tools, Natural Hazards Services provide the clarity needed to manage evolving physical risks, prioritize mitigation strategies and strengthen overall resilience.
Sources:
- PreventionWeb. (2024). Disaster losses and statistics. United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction.
- National Centers for Environmental Information. (2024). U.S. billion-dollar weather and climate disasters. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
- Reuters. (2025, August 6). Global insured catastrophe losses hit $80 billion in first half of 2025, report shows.
Helping you understand weather-related exposures and build resilience
Understanding natural hazards and weather-related exposures is the first step to creating long-term business resilience in the face of evolving risks. ZRS’ Climate Resilience team combines state-of -the-art analytics, modelled on Zurich-developed climate data, with site assessments from climate risk specialists, to provide the insights and practical recommendations organizations need to adapt their physical assets and operations to climate change. This end-to-end approach to climate risk that covers both portfolio-level analysis and location-based risk assessments is a key differentiator in the market and supports customers with site adaptations as well as their climate-related reporting initiatives.
Climate Spotlight
Identify your physical exposure to extreme weather and climate risk, adapt your operations, and tackle climate risk reporting.
Natural Hazards
Helping organizations manage today’s natural hazards and physical risks.
Regulatory Reporting
Help companies meet increasing and evolving regulatory requirements.
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Frequently Asked Questions – Extreme Weather and Natural Hazards Services
The most frequent risks include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, heat waves, and wildfires. Each presents distinct threats to people, property, and business operations.
Severe weather outlooks typically use five levels: marginal, slight, enhanced, moderate, and high risk. These categories reflect the likelihood and potential impact of hazardous weather events.
Extreme weather can cause physical damage to assets, disrupt operations and supply chains, and lead to significant financial and reputational losses. Early risk identification helps mitigate these effects.
We combine hazard mapping, on-site inspections, and detailed risk evaluations to identify vulnerabilities, estimate potential impacts, and recommend tailored resilience strategies.
Yes. Our assessments provide critical data and insights to meet extreme weather risk disclosure requirements and guide strategic investments in resilience.
This solution is available in the United States but may not be available in other jurisdictions. For solution needs outside the United States, contact Zurich to be connected with a Zurich Resilience Solutions representative where available.