The Epicenter's first series is a collection of briefings that explores opportunities for infrastructural resiliency to the main disaster types. For each, we unpack the drivers leading to increased damage and cost, the levers to reduce those impacts, and how capital allocators and decision-makers can make the insights actionable.
These briefings are meant to be evergreen and will be regularly updated as information changes and evolves.
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Hazard Briefing Topics
- The perfect storm: why disasters are so expensive | This overview of disaster costs explores what makes a disaster, how costs are measured, the drivers of $1 billion disasters, and an overview of how resiliency investments can reduce losses.
- Wildfires | Part 1 explores the drivers putting people and assets at risk from wildfire. Part 2 unpacks the levers that present opportunities for private capital to reduce the frequency, severity, and costs of wildfires.
- Hurricanes | Part 1 provides an overview of hurricane costs and what about their destruction makes hurricanes so expensive. Part 2 overviews the three key levers that present opportunity for private capital to make infrastructure and assets more resilient to hurricanes.
- Extreme Heat | Part 1 explores the drivers that make extreme heat both costly and dangerous. Part 2 offers perspective on what investors can do to reduce the costs and dangers of extreme heat.
- Severe Storms | Part 1 breaks down the cost drivers that make severe convective storms so destructive and expensive. Part 2 will provide an overview of the levers that exist to reduce those costs and impacts.
- Winter Storms | When released, the winter storms briefing will provide an overview of the costs associated with snowfall, freezing rain, strong winds, icy roads, and freezes and the levers that exist to reduce those costs.
- Earthquakes | While distinct from other weather-related disasters, this briefing will explore the costs associated with earthquake damage, and the opportunities that exist to fortify infrastructure and assets to reduce the damage and costs from earthquakes.
- Flooding | Flooding occurs with multiple disaster types, including Hurricanes and Severe Storms. This bonus briefing will explore the cost drivers associated with both coastal and inland flooding and the unique role that flood insurance plays in managing and reducing flood-associated costs and impacts.