BCEGs

Taking into consideration the nuances of the property you’re insuring can help you take charge of multifaceted risk factors.

Verisk works with fire protection, scientific, and insurance community to provide technology to manage and mitigate wildfire risk.

In our newest wildfire report, we take the measure of another year of record-setting wildfires

BCEGS was among the key sources for a FEMA study that demonstrated that building codes reduce financial losses in natural catastrophes.

The tragic fire this week at Notre Dame in Paris is a reminder that why historic buildings are at additional risk when undergoing renovation.

ISO Community Hazard Mitigation actively works with fire departments, building departments, water suppliers, and municipalities with our Public Protection Classification (PPC), Building Code Effectiveness Grading Schedule (BCEGS), water outreach, and emergency communication center review programs. With your participation and cooperation, we will attain our ultimate goal: safer communities.

Insurers rely on data and analytics to help them mitigate risk, project future losses, and set premiums. Much of that information is delivered automatically, and insurers use intelligent software to process it. However, there’s a drawback to artificial intelligence (AI): it’s weak on making judgment calls in certain instances.

In the wake of the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower, the London Fire Brigade asked Verisk to perform an analysis on buildings in the UK that have similar characteristics to Grenfell Tower.

Verisk's team surveyed areas around Miami and the Florida Keys to understand the nature and intensity of wind and storm surge damage from Hurricane Irma.

Insurers need high-quality information on construction, occupancy, public and private fire protection, and exposure—otherwise known as COPE.

Building code effectiveness and enforcement are vital to a community’s risk mitigation and something most insurers consider highly important when underwriting a property policy.

In February, ISO released the National Building Code Assessment Report on the status of the nation’s building codes, including individual assessments of each participating state.