Munich Re’s
Natural Hazards Edition

Nature is changing the rules. Make sure you always stay one step ahead!

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Be prepared for more intense and more frequent natural disasters such as hurricanes, flood events, storms or wildfires.
In 2023 natural hazards caused a total global loss of around US$ 250 billion. Stay ahead of the game by integrating physical risk data into your business processes and decision-making.

Location analytics for advanced decision making – comprehend your current risk landscape in eye-opening ways. Natural Hazards Edition seamlessly connects local specifics with latest risk data.

Integrated into your digital workflows, Natural Hazards Edition drives your spatial exploration, visualisation, and evaluation. It automates the entire process of creating scalable risk insights from big data. Our market-leading visualisation and filter options empower you by giving you deeper insight into new business opportunities. The next generation of geospatial services link multiple technological developments such as cloud-based data, the Internet of Things and artificial intelligence into a powerful decision-making solution. We are constantly pushing the envelope towards this goal.

The evaluation criteria can be extended modularly at any time by adding those of Climate Change Edition, Wildfire HD Edition and additional modules.

Turn natural disaster risks into business opportunities with Natural Hazards Edition

Invest safely: Check the risk exposure of individual assets or entire portfolios in advance based on Munich Re’s latest risk data.
Avoid revenue losses and reputational damage: Identify potential risks from natural disasters to your assets and portfolios, and proactively steer your investments towards profitable and secure returns.
Maintain your business continuity and resilience: With the globalisation of almost all business sectors, it is vital that your supply chains remain stable and exposed to as little or no natural hazard risk as possible. With Natural Hazards Edition you can stay on top of things - worldwide.
Identify risks quickly and reliably: Thanks to Natural Hazards Edition, you can easily identify areas of high risk concentration, and classify them with an overall risk score or a detailed risk exposure with up to 12 individual Hazard Scores.

The Natural Hazards Edition equips our company with the necessary knowledge to identify and assess natural disaster risks, facilitating robust decision-making in risk management and underwriting.

Barkin Goksel

Risk Engineer Team Leader

Sompo Sigorta

With Natural Hazards Edition you are always one step ahead

Natural Hazards Edition gives you access to Munich Re’s more than 140 years of natural hazard expertise, enabling you to perform efficient hazard analyses for individual locations or entire portfolios, seamlessly linking local and up-to-date data.

Benefit from comprehensive coverage of all relevant climate risks without the need to consolidate or harmonise the data, as all the required information comes from one source and is delivered in an identical format.

Global data coverage gives you access to data of consistently high quality worldwide, so you can rely on it no matter where your assets are located. Munich Re uses these data models itself for its own day-to-day business.

Assess your risk exposure at a glance, based on solid, trustworthy insights from over 140 years of Munich Re’s natural disaster assessments.

From the smallest detail to the big picture. Assess single locations, entire portfolios or infrastructure in terms of areas and lines or keep track with regional and country-specific risk scores.

Stay flexible with data access and export, ensuring easy availability via web and API for processing and exporting data. Perform individual and portfolio risk assessments with comprehensive portfolio management and reporting capabilities.

Use expert knowledge, such as the two “defended” and “undefended” data calculations, to adapt your risk assessments to both scenarios and display the different scores.

Reliably evaluate the current status of your entire portfolio or of individual locations, areas, or infrastructures

Munich Re offers high-quality natural hazard expertise for the performance of efficient exposure analyses for your individual risk locations or entire portfolios. You can cluster main risk hot spots, filter dynamically and identify accumulations in your portfolio to create greater understanding for better decisions.

In addition to the comprehensive overall score, which is based on the three individually accessible detailed scores for earthquake, storm and flood, users receive dedicated ratings for a total of 12 natural hazards, including earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, tropical storms, hail, tornadoes, lightning, wildfires, river floods, storm surges, etc.

All analysed locations are visually displayed in the form of detailed Natural Hazard Maps with individual layers per risk and can be saved as reports together with all individual scores.

You can also increase the profitability of your business with optimum risk diversification and advanced portfolio management. Thanks to maximum data processing speed and security, Natural Hazards Edition gives you a time-efficient and secure user experience. Over 50 million risk assessments every year and an annual customer satisfaction score of over 90% demonstrate that this is a globally proven, trusted tool.

Scores that score points when it comes to natural hazards

In addition to the comprehensive Overall Risk Score, which is based on the three individually accessible detailed Risk Scores for Earthquake, Storm and Flood, users receive dedicated ratings for a total of 12 Natural Hazards, including Earthquakes, Volcanoes, Tsunamis, Tropical Storms, Hail, Tornadoes, Lightning, Wildfires, River Floods, Storm Surges, etc.

NATHAN Risk Scores

NATHAN Hazard Scores

Also available On-Demand

Pay as you go: In the On-Demand version, users without a contractual commitment can use credits that can be purchased directly on the website to determine risk assessments for single locations (not entire portfolios) and download them in meaningful reports.

On-Demand version

High value platform functionalities

Sometimes more is simply more. Especially when it comes to well-designed functionalities that facilitate risk assessment on the one hand and reduce your workload on the other. These outstanding functionalities include Single asset assessment, Portfolio assessment, Portfolio management, Export manager, Maps, Elevation profile, Portfolio aggregation and comparison, Areas & lines, REST API and Single Sign-On.

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