RiskDataInfo consists of individual datasets containing historical information on weather and natural disaster related damages.  These datasets are compatible with MapInfo’s complete line of risk assessment map databases.  They can be purchased individually or bundled together in varying groupings.

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Who uses it? What for?
Insurers and other organizations can increase income by limiting or managing their liability and exposure to risks. Precise historical data allows users to make accurate rating calculations, pricing and underwriting decisions based on a site’s exposure to fault lines and flood plains as well as susceptibility to hurricanes, tornados and other acts of nature. Rates can be determined or negotiated based on the frequency and severity of damage from natural disasters, perilous weather or extent of environmental hazards.

Rate Calculation and Policy Underwriting
Insurers and other organizations can increase income by limiting or managing their liability and exposure to risks. Precise historical data allows users to make accurate rating calculations, pricing and underwriting decisions based on a site’s exposure to fault lines and flood plains as well as susceptibility to hurricanes, tornados and other acts of nature. Rates can be determined or negotiated based on the frequency and severity of damage from natural disasters, perilous weather or extent of environmental hazards.

Disaster Planning and Emergency Preparedness
Our products bring quick and easy access of information on the destructive forces of nature via a desktop.  With the historical perspective our information provides, businesses and public entities can determine their exposure to natural disasters, severe weather and the damages and injuries that might be caused. This vital information can aid in emergency preparedness, pinpointing the best ways to provide disaster notification, plan evacuation routes and set up relief shelters.

Marketing Opportunities
Combine risk assessment databases to illuminate marketing opportunities and reveal untapped markets. Companies involved in disaster remediation HAZMAT handling and clean up, insurance or various safety industries are better able to locate a building site or target a marketing effort.

Site Analysis
Before customers build, relocate or buy, these products can help them analyze a proposed property for its proximity to fault lines and exposure to flooding. We also offer a complete, graphical tool for analyzing any selected area’s history of severe weather and natural disasters.