Munich Re’s
Wildfire HD Edition

Wildfire HD Edition is the ideal modular SaaS data edition for companies who want to reliably evaluate the current status of their exposure to wildfire risk for individual locations or entire portfolios. Risk scores are calculated using Munich Re’s claims experience and scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change.

Wildfire HD Edition offers high-quality natural hazard expertise which enables you to perform efficient exposure analyses of your individual risk locations or entire portfolios, with a very high level of detail and accuracy. Cluster main risk hotspots, filter dynamically and identify accumulations in your portfolio to provide greater understanding for better decision-making with high-resolution maps in order to generate even more detailed assessments. The risk maps offer a higher resolution in order to generate even more detailed assessments, including key zones for high-risk and high-value locations.

Over 50 million risk assessments every year demonstrate that this is a globally proven, trusted tool.

Climate data and claims records indicate a significant rise in wildfire hazard and loss levels in the United States, Canada, and Australia. 

The size of the losses highlights the large accumulation potential, something that is often underestimated. The frequency of meteorological conditions that favour severe fire seasons has also increased in many regions around the world. Of major importance for the insurance industry in this context are additional regions with highly exposed values, such as the Mediterranean in Europe and regions in Australia.

Key benefits

• Higher resolution to better resolve wildland urban interfaces (WUI), key zones for high-risk and high-value locations. The WUI is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) wide and divided into 5 detailed zones.
• Easy to visualise maps for risk acceptance rather than complex stochastic models.
• API available for flexible integration into your existing tools and processes.
• Underpinned by the claims analysis of one of the world’s leading reinsurers.
• Taking into account the latest knowledge on the impacts of climate change.

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 location assessment, location geocoding, map services, portfolio assessment, saving of locations, elevation profiles, traffic light visualisation, location set filtering, REST API and areas and lines scoring.