ZestyAI to Integrate IBHS’s Fast-Growing FORTIFIED Construction Standard Into Its Predictive Property and Climate Risk Platform 

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SAN FRANCISCO, CA September 28, 2023 – Today, ZestyAI, the leading provider of climate and property risk analytics solutions powered by artificial intelligence, announced it has integrated the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety’s (IBHS) resilient construction standard, FORTIFIED, into Z-PROPERTY™, its AI-powered predictive property and climate risk platform. Z-PROPERTY uses computer vision and machine learning to extract insights from aerial and satellite imagery, among other unique data sources, for over 150 million residential and commercial properties.  

Live burn demonstrations show effectiveness of research-based mitigation actions in Wildfire Prepared Home

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Richburg, SC, Sept. 26, 2023 – The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) last week conducted two live wildfire demonstrations in California showing the effectiveness of the research-based wildfire mitigation actions in its Wildfire Prepared Home designation program, including maintaining a noncombustible five-foot buffer around a home – Zone 0 – to help reduce its risk of ignition.

The Return of Conflagration in Our Built Environment

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Research With the Oakland Hills Tunnel Fire of 1991, built environment conflagrations returned to United States cities. Wildfire, which had been viewed as a wildland and rural community problem, now was a catalyst for conflagration. Over the next three decades, the most catastrophic wildfires were often those where fire entered communities of the Wildland-Urban Interface…

Building Performance in SW Florida during Hurricane Ian (2022)

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Home / Wind / Building Performance in Southwest Florida During Hurricane Ian Building Performance in Southwest Florida During Hurricane Ian Hurricane Ian made landfall along the barrier island of Cayo Costa near Punta Gorda, Florida, on September 28, 2022, as a Category 4 storm on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale.   Research Hurricane Ian represented the most significant test of the modern…