About The Epicenter

Decision makers across the United States–including everyone from local elected officials, commercial real estate developers, individual homeowners, and muni market participants–know that extreme weather events are accelerating and impacting businesses, families, and communities. However, it’s difficult to understand or prepare for exactly how accelerating climate disasters will impact different regions or industries, and even harder to discern what solutions exist to mitigate those risks. 

The Epicenter helps decision makers understand how climate hazards will impact them, and discover viable solutions to mitigate those risks. It is the home for stories about resiliency solutions that can protect communities, businesses, and assets from the impacts of extreme weather.

What’s the problem?

In the early 2000s, the U.S. averaged roughly seven disasters per year that cost a billion dollars or more (per disaster). Fast forward to 2024, and that number has spiked to 27 disasters per year, or one every other week.

What’s concerning is that these increasingly frequent climate events are not just the mega-storms like Hurricane Katrina (approximate cost: $200 billion). Today, even a 30-minute thunderstorm can cause over $1 billion in damage.

What’s going on? It’s a complex, nuanced problem that involves climate change, population growth and migration, asset exposure, federal policy, private capital, systemic inequities, and the need to adapt our nation’s critical infrastructure.

What you’ll find on The Epicenter

Amidst these accelerating climate hazards, The Epicenter seeks to help decision makers understand what’s driving the accelerating costs associated with extreme weather, while highlighting innovative resiliency solutions.

We showcase individuals and organizations–across the public, private, and social sectors–who are investing in resilient critical infrastructure for a climate-adapted future. 

If extreme weather events are straining your business or community, you’ve come to the right place. 

The Epicenter is for readers who want to understand topics including:

• How extreme weather will threaten insurance coverage for homes and businesses, and how we can better manage climate risk to preserve insurability.
• How public infrastructure will be threatened by flooding, extreme heat, and other hazards, and how the public sector can effectively manage infrastructure finance.
• How outdated building codes and materials will be strained by extreme weather, and how resilient building materials and design decisions can protect our built environment.
• How climate hazards will disrupt investments in businesses and communities, and what solutions exist to mitigate those impacts.

If you know that extreme weather is impacting you in new and challenging ways, The Epicenter is here to help you understand the paths that exist to adapt and make the right budget decisions to ensure your home, business, and community can thrive amidst our evolving climate reality.

How You Can Engage

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The Epicenter is an affiliated publication of The Resiliency Company, a 501(c)3 nonprofit dedicated to inspiring and empowering humanity to adapt to the accelerating challenges of the next 100+ years.