Hazard HQ Command CentralTM

Hazard HQ Command Central

Natural disasters play a pronounced role in the changing nature of the insurance, real estate, and mortgage lending markets. Catastrophes such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, floods, and severe thunderstorms ultimately affect all parties involved in property-related decisions, from the banks to individual homeowners.

CoreLogic’s Hazard HQ Command CentralTM provides updates on the impacts of natural disasters across the globe, including detailed descriptions of the events, modeled insured/insurable loss estimates, and the number of residential properties affected. Stay tuned to get our latest take on how to manage risks associated with these types of risks. Read previous posts from Hazard HQ Command CentralTM.
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April 1, 2021

Nearly 10,000 Homes Likely Impacted by Alabama, Georgia Tornado Out...

March 25, 2021, will be remembered as a tragic day across Alabama: one of high-impact, exceptionally long-tracked tornadoes resulting in 5 lives lost and an estimated excess of 9,000 properties damaged. As projected by the National Weather Service, severe thunderstorms began by midday and became ...

March 29, 2021

Severe Weather Outbreaks in the South

Figure 1:  Alabama Tornado Outbreaks Sources: National Weather Service damage paths for the 2011 event and CoreLogic Tornado Verification Technology algorithm for the 2021 events. © 2021 CoreLogic,Inc., All rights reserved. It’s the middle of tornado season for the South. A week after a torn...

March 25, 2021

Storm Season has Arrived in the Southern U.S.

Just one week after the region’s most recent bout with severe weather, Thursday, March 25, is expected to deliver yet another outbreak of dangerous storms across much of the mid-South and Gulf Coast regions of the United States. A dangerous combination of seasonably strong convective instability ...

March 22, 2021

Alabama Tornado Outbreaks of March 17, 2021 and April 27, 2011

March 22, 2021 | 4:05pm CT The March 17, 2021 Alabama tornado outbreak was a high-risk event. Another notable high-risk event over Alabama was April 27, 2011, an event known as the 2011 Super Outbreak. That event produced 216 tornadoes, including 11 EF4 and 4 EF5 tornadoes, and was responsible fo...

March 17, 2021

Severe Weather Outbreak in the Southeast U.S

A significant severe weather and tornado outbreak will occur today, Wednesday, March 17th across portions of the Southeast United States. A strong upper level storm system moving into the Southern Plains has drawn rich low level moisture northward across portions of Arkansas, Tennessee, Louisiana...

February 19, 2021

February Extreme Winter Storm

With the central U.S. winter storm now freezing a large portion of the country, CoreLogic looks further into the effects of this storm. Our first discussion focused on the temperature anomaly – the deviation of the cold temperatures this week from the normal temperatures. Leveraging the Pivotal W...

February 17, 2021

Hazard HQ Webinar Archive

Dynamic Valuations – The Meaning Behind the Numbers  By following market trends and comparing opinions of value, appraisers and assessors can identify new opportunities for growth in their industry.  Watch Now Earthquake Risk: A San Diego Perspective The California Earthquake Auth...

January 27, 2021

Alabama Tornado

Tornado season has arrived in the southeastern United States, as a powerful storm system brought destructive weather to the mid-South and central Gulf Coast region earlier this week. Late in the evening of January 25, the northern suburbs of Birmingham, Alabama, were heavily damaged when a strong...

December 3, 2020

2020 Wildfires

It can be argued that there is no real wildfire “season” anymore and that wildfires are occurring throughout the year in at least parts of the western U.S. Today, late year wildfires broke out in Southern California, with the Bond Fire in Orange county expanding from the 3,500 acres initially rep...

October 30, 2020

Magnitude 7.0 Earthquake in Turkey and Greece

On Friday, 30 October, a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck the sea near the Turkey and Greece borders at a shallow depth. The earthquake struck some 120 miles south of the western-most section of the North Anatolian fault, the seismic source that drives the majority of risk in Turkey.  The mom...

October 28, 2020

Hurricane Zeta

Zeta is currently a high-end Category 2 storm with maximum sustained winds of 110 mph and is expected to make landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana tonight before 7pm CT. The Louisiana coast has been battered this season from Laura and Marco to the recent Delta–and now Zeta. Zeta’s add...

October 13, 2020

Hurricane Delta

CoreLogic Estimates $0.7 Billion to $1.2 Billion in U.S. Onshore Losses From Hurricane Delta Wind and Storm Surge According to this new CoreLogic Hurricane Delta data analysis, insured wind losses for residential and commercial properties in Louisiana and Texas are estimated to be between $0.5 bi...