Tim Johnson

In this article, the second of three in our series on managing U.S. severe thunderstorm risk, we discuss our innovative and first-of-its-kind hail vulnerability framework and how our updated model can distinguish the view of risk from one property to another.

This article focuses primarily on damage surveys conducted in the aftermath of U.S. hurricanes and addresses how and why we conduct them. As we update our U.S. hurricane model—a tool that helps quantify the risk—we uncover more questions that are typically answered only after studying another event.

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

Within a week of Hurricane Matthew's close bypass along the southeastern coast of Florida on October 7, an AIR damage survey team was on its way south.