Cyclone, Hurricane, and Typhoon
Proactively manage wind, precipitation, and storm surge risk.
Quantifying Tropical Cyclone Risk
Tropical cyclones are a significant source of annual catastrophe risk globally. RMS cyclone, hurricane, and typhoon models help the market quantify this risk to inform sound underwriting, portfolio management, and risk transfer decisions.
Obtain a Robust Determination of Risk
Assess risk across the full spectrum of landfalling, bypassing, and transitioning storms. RMS models are informed by extensive stochastic event sets and landfall rates specific to each basin or region.
Utilize the Best Hazard Science
Select and manage risk utilizing the latest RMS hazard innovations. RMS models incorporate advanced wind and water modeling methodologies to generate realistic representations, variations, and correlations of tropical cyclone hazard within each region.
Advanced Insights Into Building Vulnerability
Differentiate risks within and across regions, sub-perils, building characteristics, and mitigation efforts. RMS models include hundreds of unique vulnerability functions informed by data, regional differences in building codes or construction, and insights from recent events.
Tropical Cyclone Models
Market-leading RMS models deliver the reference view of cyclone, hurricane or typhoon risk for each region.
North Atlantic Hurricane
Single, basin-wide event methodology validated using over $300 billion of loss data, RMS North Atlantic Hurricane Models help (re)insurers quantify risk across 40 countries throughout the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific, and Central Pacific Basins.
Japan Typhoon and Flood
During 2018 and 2019, Japan saw overall insured losses from typhoons Jebi, Trami, Faxai and Hagibis approach US$20billion. RMS offers the most advanced model on the market, the only model to incorporate the latest finds from these recent events.
Australia Cyclone
Modeling reflects the latest representation of cyclone hazard frequency and severity in Australia, with vulnerability calibrated against recent events such as Marcia and Yasi.
Western North Pacific Typhoon
Advanced risk modeling for typhoon covers all the major impacted regions including China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Cyclone, Hurricane, and Typhoon
Market-leading RMS models deliver the reference view of tropical cyclone risk for each region.
Industry Leadership
Reactions 2018 North America Risk Modeler of the Year
RMS was named “2018 North America Risk Modeler of the Year” at the eleventh Reactions North America Awards for its support for clients during the 2017 North Atlantic Hurricane Season.
Achieving an Industry First With Version 18.1 FCHLPM Certification
Following this approval, RMS becomes the first risk modeling and analytics firm to have its hurricane models approved by the FCHLPM on a software and cloud platform simultaneously.
Reactions 2018 Latin America Risk Modeler of the Year
"RMS models and reconnaissance efforts helped licensed customers and the industry to understand their total exposed limits with greater precision. Last year's events 'road tested' the capability and efficacy of our models...."
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Resources
Atlantic Hurricane in 2020: Are We in Store for Another Record…
In the midst of the 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, with storms forming in rapid sequence, records broken early in the season and four storms already producing significant damage in the Caribbean and U.S., whether we are headed for a record-breaking year is a good question. Various forecast agencies have issued mid-season updates, which signal prospects for the remainder of the season. But what about the 2020 season to date, and how does it compare to notably…
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