Description: This report highlights major weather stories that unfolded across the month of January 2020.

Description: This research studies catastrophe insurance pools covering losses caused by extreme weather events.

Description: The American Academy of Actuaries announces the inaugural Award for Research, to be awarded to an early career scholar for the best research from an actuarial perspective. The theme for this year is Climate Change/ Climate Risk.

Description: This installment reports on April, 2019 extreme weather events

Description: The Palisades and Eaton fires started on January 7, 2025, in Los Angeles County, California. They were fueled by extreme Santa Ana winds and dry conditions, burning over 23,713 and 14,117 acres. As of January 20, 2025, the wildfires had damaged or destroyed more than 17,000 structures. Initial insured loss estimates from catastrophe risk modelers are in the range of $20- $45 billion which would make the fires the worst since the Camp Fire driven losses in 2018

Description: This research paper studies catastrophe insurance pools covering losses caused by extreme weather events.

Description: This report series identifies and examines weather extremes in North America and beyond. Using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI), NOAA Global Historical Climatology Network (GHCN), United States Geological Survey (USGS), and United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) among others; the reports identify and summarize unusual or extreme single-day or multi-day weather events which are significant in an historical context. The most recent report covers the tremendous scale of Hurricane Ian as it hit Florida and the geographic range of the perils associated with the hurricane.

Description: Fifty-three percent of Americans responding to a survey conducted by the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute reported that extreme weather events – including hurricanes, tornadoes, heatwaves, wildfires and flooding – have adversely affected their health.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute received a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) to educate insurance actuaries on the use of wildfire risk datasets and models to be developed by researchers from academia and the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Description: This installment reports on May, 2019 extreme weather events