Natural Hazards Risk Services

Risk Solutions for Current and Future Extreme Weather Events and Natural Hazards.

Reducing exposure to natural hazards through data-driven risk assessments

As extreme weather events become more frequent and severe, organizations face growing threats from flooding, wildfires, extreme heat and powerful storms. These hazards are no longer distant possibilities—they are current realities impacting people, property, critical infrastructure and supply chains across industries. At the same time, shifting precipitation patterns, rising temperatures and intensifying hazards are expected to create even greater risks in the decades ahead, making proactive adaptation essential for long-term resilience.

Zurich Resilience Solutions’ Natural Hazards Services help organizations identify and assess exposure to physical risks from extreme weather using data-rich hazard mapping and engineering-based assessments. These services analyze site-specific vulnerabilities, quantify risk and offer actionable solutions to strengthen resilience.

Assessments can be conducted onsite or remotely, depending on the organization’s needs. Both approaches evaluate current and future hazard exposure across different extreme weather scenarios and time horizons. This enables businesses to prioritize investments in mitigation, meet risk disclosure requirements and reduce downtime following an event.

By identifying critical processes, value chains and potential losses tied to high-risk perils, Natural Hazards Services support long-term operational continuity and a stronger risk profile. These services are also instrumental in informing project design, capital planning and sustainable growth strategies.

Whether an organization is operating in a high-risk floodplain, navigating intensifying wildfires or managing heat-sensitive operations, Natural Hazards Services provide the insights needed to stay ahead of the physical risks associated with extreme weather.

Protecting Operations with Targeted Natural Hazard Assessments

Understanding your exposure to natural hazards is essential for reducing risk and maintaining operational resilience. Our expert-led onsite and desktop assessments provide detailed insights that empower organizations to anticipate, prepare for, and mitigate the impacts of extreme weather events.

Risk Visibility
Gain precise, location-specific knowledge of current and evolving natural hazard threats affecting your sites, infrastructure and supply chains.
Resilience Planning
Leverage detailed risk evaluations and scenario analyses to develop tailored mitigation strategies that optimize resource allocation and strengthen long-term durability.
Operational Continuity

Minimize downtime by proactively identifying vulnerabilities and implementing adaptation measures that safeguard people, assets and operations.

Natural Hazard Services from Zurich Resilience Solutions

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.

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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 natural hazards 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 extreme weather 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.

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