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Natural disasters, caused in part by climate change, play a pronounced role in the changing nature of the housing market. Catastrophes such as wildfires, hurricanes, flooding, wind events and winter storms ultimately affect all parties involved in real estate transactions. CoreLogic’s Hazard Team blog offers the latest updates on the impacts of natural disaster on the housing ecosystem, including information on current damage estimates and future projections. Stay tuned to get our latest take on how to manage risks associated with these types of risks. Read previous blog posts from CoreLogic's Hazard Team.
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December 14, 2021

Three Things to Know About the Midwest Tornado Outbreak

On Friday evening, December 10, a deadly series of tornadoes broke out across six states: Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee.

October 15, 2021

Three Things to Know About Hurricane Pamela

Hurricane Pamela made landfall along Mexico’s Pacific Coast early the morning of October 14, 2021

September 13, 2021

Three Things to Know About Tropical Storm Nicholas

Tropical Storm Nicholas has formed in the western Gulf of Mexico and is threatening the western Gulf Coast, primarily the Texas coast

September 8, 2021

CoreLogic Estimates $16 Billion to $24 Billion in Insured and Unins...

CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released additional loss estimates for Hurricane Ida

September 1, 2021

CoreLogic Estimates $27 Billion to $40 Billion in Insured and Unins...

CoreLogic, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today announced residential and commercial wind, storm surge and inland flooding loss estimates for Hurricane Ida.

August 30, 2021

Will the Levees Hold? 3 Things to Watch for in Hurricane Ida

Late Saturday into Sunday, August 29, Hurricane Ida rapidly intensified into a Category 4 hurricane before making landfall near Port Fourchon shortly before 12pm CT.  

August 27, 2021

941,392 Homes at Risk from Hurricane Ida Storm Surge

CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, today released data analysis for single-family and multifamily homes at risk of storm surge damage from Hurricane Ida

August 24, 2021

Update : Three Things to Know About the Weather Events This Weekend...

Tropical Storm Henri made landfall over the weekend and caused limited inland flooding and power outages

August 21, 2021

Three Things to Know About Tropical Storm Henri

Tropical storm Henri continues to gradually strengthen and is currently located in the SW Atlantic or approximately 320 miles SSE of Cape Hatteras North Carolina.

August 16, 2021

Three Things to Know About the Haiti Earthquake

A M7.2 earthquake struck Haiti over the weekend: On August 14th at 12.29 UTC, a M7.2 earthquake struck Haiti at 10km depth, about 75 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.

August 10, 2021

Update: Three Things to Know About the Dixie Fire

Updated: August 9, 2021 | 3:14 pm PT The Dixie Fire has become the 2nd largest wildfire recorded in California history The Dixie fire continues to grow. Approaching 500,000 acres in size, the Dixie Fire has now become the 2nd largest wildfire in recorded California History. Five of the 7 largest ...

July 19, 2021

Three Things to Know About the Germany Flooding

July 19, 2021 | 11:41am CT | 4:41pm GMT The flooding has been severe and is likely to continue over the next few days Severe flooding from July 12-15 resulted in the loss of 188 lives as of July 19 and catastrophic damage in western German states (North Rhine-Westphalia and Rh...