Flood
Gain a greater understanding of flood risk using comprehensive flood models.
Understanding Flood Impact
RMS flood models offer broad-scale, well-validated views of flood risk, helping insurers, reinsurers, governments, and financial institutions to gain necessary insights to adequately monitor, manage, and mitigate their flood risk and optimize risk transfer.
Comprehensive Metrics
Understand the unique characteristics of flood hazard and exposure management to fully comprehend and manage your flood risk.
Confident Risk Pricing
Get a detailed understanding of location-level risk to support more informed underwriting and risk selection.
Informed Risk Management
Quickly identify exposures to flood risk, highlight hot spots, and understand the expected impact by geography and line of business.
Complete View of Flood Risk
As the most widespread and frequent peril driving catastrophic property and casualty losses, having a complete view of flood risk is one of the most important challenges confronting (re)insurers today.
RMS Global Flood Solutions
North America Flood
The RMS® U.S. Inland Flood HD Model offers a comprehensive and well-validated view of flood risk throughout the contiguous U.S., helping (re)insurers gain necessary insights into the range of commercial opportunities associated with the private flood market.
Europe Flood
The RMS Europe Inland Flood HD Models offer a comprehensive and customizable view of risk covering 15 European countries. Starting with precipitation, continuously simulated over a period of 50,000 years, the models explicitly account for spatial and temporal correlations across the whole Pan-European domain, which can be licensed as a bundle or for individual countries.
Asia-Pacific Flood
Economic losses from weather-related events in Asia-Pacific average around $54 billion each year (Aon), and recent events such as severe floods in Japan and the Kerala floods in India during 2018, show that flood risk is breaking new records. Modeling all sources of flood risk is essential, and RMS has recently launched its RMS Japan Typhoon and Flood HD Model to help the industry understand both typhoon and non-typhoon flooding losses.
Industry Leadership
An Award-Winning U.S. Inland Flood Model
The RMS U.S. Inland Flood HD Model was awarded the “Initiative of the Year” prize at the prestigious Trading Risk Awards held in London in 2019.
Award-Winning Europe Flood HD Models
RMS Europe Inland Flood HD Models won the “Best Catastrophe Risk Modeling Solution” award at the 2017 InsuranceERM Awards held in London.
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Resources
European Floods and the Relationship with the North Atlantic Oscillation
Stefano Zanardo, Principal Modeler, RMS Ludovico Nicotina, Senior Director – Modeling, RMS Arno Hilberts, Vice President, Model Development, RMS Steve Jewson, Scientific Research Consultant, RMS The North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) describes the fluctuations in the difference of atmospheric pressure at sea level between two semi-permanent centers of low and high pressure in the North Atlantic: the Icelandic Low and the Azores High. Fluctuations…
Three Principles for Exposing the Hidden Risks (and Opportunities) Within Your European Flood Portfolio
Building a profitable European flood portfolio is like walking a tightrope—a tricky balancing act. It is of course important to minimize your risk of significant losses. But while big losses certainly haunt the market—just remember the €1.7 billion claimed in the UK as a result of last December’s floods—being too cautious or overpricing will lead you to miss out on attractive opportunities. Striking the right balance is no easy task. Flooding…
The Value of Flood Protection: Quantifying the Benefits of Defenses Along U.K. Rivers
Whenever the U.K. is hit by major flooding, attention quickly turns to the performance of the nation’s flood defenses. Some defenses, such as London’s Thames Barrier, are regularly recognized for their vital role in protecting people and property. The value of other mitigation measures, however, has been frequently challenged, such as when defenses failed to prevent significant flooding in Cumbria during storm Desmond in 2015. Flooding in the…
The Value of Defense
Current flood defenses in the U.K. reduce annual losses from river flooding by £1.1 billion, according to research by RMS Flooding is one of the most significant natural hazards for the U.K. with over five million homes and businesses in England at risk of flooding and coastal erosion, according to the Environment Agency. Flood barrier in Shropshire, England In 2015, the U.K. government announced a six-year, £2.3 billion investment in flood…
RMS Estimates Hurricane Harvey Insured Losses from Wind, Storm Surge and Inland Flood Damage will be Between USD $25 and $35 Billion
NEWARK, Calif. - September 09, 2017 - RMS has estimated that the insured loss from Hurricane Harvey will be between $25 to $35 billion, with an upper bound of $40 billion. This RMS estimate represents the insured losses associated with wind, storm surge, and inland flood damage, across Texas and Louisiana only. The estimate also includes gross losses accrued to the National Flood Insurance Program of $7 to $10 billion. RMS Best Industry Loss…
Hurricane Florence: Rainfall up to a 1,000-year Return Period
Florence’s much anticipated landfall occurred at 11:15 UTC (7.15 a.m. local time) today, Friday, September 14, near Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, as a Category 1 hurricane. Florence remains just within the Category 1 hurricane classification on Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale (SSHWS); as of the 18:00 UTC National Hurricane Center (NHC) advisory today, maximum sustained winds were 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour). Previous observations showed…
What If The Oroville Dam Had Collapsed Completely?
RMS modeling reveals the wider risk of U.S. flooding, and a significant protection gap A combination of heavy rainfall and melting snow had filled Lake Oroville in northern California near to its capacity. Dam operators released water through the main spillway to control the reservoir level, but a 300-foot hole unexpectedly emerged, and the surrounding soil was eroded by the water gushing out. Spillway outflows were reduced to stop the erosion. …
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