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Bigger, More Complex Wildfires Prompt Changes in Firefighting Workforce
It's shaping up to be a long wildfire season, with Texas already seeing its largest blaze in recorded history and firefighters becoming overwhelmed with recent blazes in Virginia. Just in the first ...
Study: Wildfires Increase Mental Health Burden
A new study of prescription records supports a long-suspected link between wildfires and mental health, indicating that large wildfires appear to exacerbate preexisting mental health conditions, ...
U.S. Power Companies Under Fire Over Role in Deadly Wildfires
The wildfire raging across the Texas panhandle, dubbed the Smokehouse Creek Fire and officially the largest on record for the state, has doubled in size since earlier this week and burned through an ...
Risks to Watch: Rising Lumber Costs, Solar Flares, Underground Climate Change
The risk landscape is seemingly ever-expanding. While the insurance industry faces the familiar — yet more costly — severe weather activity, there may be new risks ...
Piercing Through Rain, Smoke and Fog: How Radar Satellites See Catastrophes
The integration of new technologies into the claims ecosystem is gathering pace as insurance and reinsurance organizations seek to enhance both the speed and accuracy of payments. One example is the ...
AI Tapped to Fight Wildfires
Wildfires fueled by climate change have ravaged communities from Maui to the Mediterranean this summer, killing many people, exhausting firefighters and fueling demand for new solutions. Enter ...
Evacuation Policies and Cat Strips: Wildfire Insurance and Reinsurance Ideas That Failed
Sometimes, it takes a few tries to develop the right insurance or reinsurance product—one that will align well with the needs and wants of customers.
While I was doing research for this edition, I came across these paragraphs, written by one of the leaders of a technology company, recalling a previous role he had ...
The Long Tail: Aftermath of Disaster
As Cleanup Continues in Maui, 75 Wildfires Rage Across the U.S.
As cleanup continues in the aftermath of the Maui wildfires, a new update released by the National Interagency Fire Center indicates there are currently 75 wildfires blazing through the U.S. Those ...