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Severe convective storm risk solutions

Master SCS exposure with risk scores

Severe convective storm losses continue to surge. By replacing outdated regional averages with property-level hazard risk scores, underwriters can accurately quantify hail, wind, and lightning exposure to protect balance sheets.

Precision analytics

Transform underwriting with risk scores

Property insurance underwriters face severe convective storms rivaling hurricane losses. Cotality provides granular, high-fidelity hazard risk scores to evaluate hail size, wind, and lightning frequency at specific property locations.

13 Million

Additional homes added to the US housing market in the last decade, significantly increasing total insured value in SCS-prone regions.

10%

Expansion of residential density in high-risk states like Texas and Colorado, amplifying exposure to catastrophic hail and tornado events.

+50%

Increase in median home values since 2019, making precise SCS hazard scoring critical to preventing catastrophic loss ratio leakage.

Underwriting intelligence

Precision risk scores for severe storm risk

Cotality decodes complex severe convective storm sub-perils—hail, wind, and tornadoes—into granular, address-level metrics. Transform high-resolution hazard data into accurate, actionable scores built for modern property underwriting.
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Cotality Hail™

Accurate property-level hail risk assessments powered by actuariallycredible, Average Annual Loss (AAL) metrics for precise underwriting and riskmitigation.

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Hail risk score

Delivers property-level annual event probabilities and includes a Supplemental Hail Claim Risk Score to forecast claim filing likelihood with high-fidelity precision.

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Wind resiliency score

Predictive solution evaluating catastrophic hurricaneand convective wind impacts at the property level to generate precise frequencyand severity ratings.

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Hail Insight®

Provides a precise three-year look back at historical hail activity, identifying exact event occurrences and stone size distributions using proprietary hail verification technology.

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Wind risk score

Features distinct 1–100 scores for tornadic, straight-line, and hurricane-force winds using high-resolution historical windstorm observations and verification data.

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Lightning risk score

Evaluates recorded lightning strike frequency and strike density to help insurers accurately assess sub-peril exposure and refine policy pricing.

Portfolio optimization

Address-level severe storm risk scoring

Severe Convective Storms no longer represent localized events, they are primary drivers of portfolio loss. Cotality equips underwriters, actuaries, and risk managers with granular, location-level risk scores that eliminate guesswork and strengthen risk selection. By leveraging high-fidelity weather verification and property-specific hazard scores, carriers can confidently screen submission quality, price volatile perils accurately, and manage aggregate exposure across expanding geographic footprints.

FAQ

How do property-level SCS risk scores protect underwriting margins compared to regional averages?

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How can exposure leaders leverage property-level risk scores to prevent catastrophic accumulation?

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How do property-level risk scores support actuarial teams in building defensible rate structures?

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What scientific data validates the accuracy and fidelity of these SCS risk scores?

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