Natural Hazards Solutions

Helping organizations manage today’s natural hazards and physical risks

Helping reduce loss exposure and maintain operations with natural hazard identification and analysis

Increasing extreme weather is no longer an emerging risk, it is happening right now. Natural hazards – such as flooding and wildfires – which are often exacerbated by rising temperatures – have a significant operational impact on organizations around the world.

Identifying, assessing and managing the risks of these hazards has long been at the core of Zurich’s offering, including 75 years of risk engineering experience.

ZRS helps organizations overcome these challenges by using natural hazards maps to assess their exposure to events such as flood, heat, or earthquake. Risk experts then perform detailed risk assessments at customer site-locations to determine the criticality of the assts and operations, as well as identifying vulnerabilities and recommending risk management solutions.

Identifying and protecting critical operations

It is important to identify and protect the critical parts of your operations against physical impact events to build resilience now and for the future. Physical impact risk can be modeled for different climate scenarios and time horizons. This approach helps organizations to identify, assess and mitigate risk to minimize damage to physical assets, reduce financial loss and limit operational downtime.

Global cost of climate impact on infrastructure, property, agriculture and human health estimated to be between $1.7 trillion and $3.1 trillion per year by 2050.
Just four weather perils (floods, tropical cyclones, winter storms and severe connected storms) could cause expected economic losses of $200 billion annually.
The impacts of climate change are being felt today, with extreme weather being highlighted as the number one concern for organizations in 2024.

World Economic Forum, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/10/climate-loss-and-damage-cost-16-million-per-hour/

Natural Hazard services

ZRS helps organizations identify and quantify extreme weather-related physical risks using natural hazards maps that assess exposure to events such as flood, heat, wind, storm, or earthquake. Our natural hazard risk specialists then perform detailed risk assessments, either at customer site-locations or via remote desktop, to determine the assets and operations that may be at risk, identify vulnerabilities and recommend risk improvement actions.

Our site-level analysis is performed by our team of Climate specialists and natural hazard engineers and assesses the potential impact of current natural hazards and future climate perils. These “Boots-on-the-ground” assessments include recommendations to help your company strengthen resilience and protect your people, assets, operations, and critical infrastructure. Performed at customer site location(s), our analysis of current and future natural hazards and vulnerabilities is used determine loss scenarios, estimates and detailed climate resiliency solutions.

Areas of expertise include:

Performed by climate specialists and natural hazard engineers
Conducted at the customer’s location
Determines loss scenarios and estimates
Provides detailed climate resiliency solutions

Our natural hazard engineering team performs a remote analysis of evolving climate perils uses open-source information, third-party reports and construction drawings to determine the potential impact of current natural hazards and future perils. Our desktop site-level analysis is performed by our team of Climate specialists and natural hazard engineers and includes recommendations to help your company strengthen resilience to natural hazard and extreme weather risks to protect your people, assets, operations, and critical infrastructure.

Areas of expertise include:

Performed by Climate specialists and natural hazard engineers
Uses open source and 3rd party data
Analysis of current and future natural hazards and vulnerabilities
Determines loss scenarios and estimates
Provides detailed climate resiliency solutions

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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.