Disaster Safety Blog

Richburg, SC, Nov. 16, 2023 – With winter fast approaching, now is the time for home and business owners to take action to prepare their properties for severe winter weather. Guidance from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) can help prevent costly damage and disruption when freezing temperatures and wintry precipitation arrive, in a year El Niño is expected to bring atypical conditions.

Richburg, SC, Nov. 2, 2023 – New research shows few states and counties with the greatest wildfire risk are using sound regulatory approaches backed by consistent enforcement.  

Living with Wildfire – a report from the Insurance Institute of Business & Home Safety (IBHS), the National Fire Protection Association® (NFPA®) and Verisk, examined community vulnerability and wildfire readiness around the wildland-urban interface (WUI) in 13 Western states.

Richburg, SC, Oct. 19, 2023 – Even as the seasons change, many communities are still at risk of wildfire. Property owners can strengthen their homes and businesses year-round using science-based mitigation actions from the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS). IBHS’s updated Wildfire Ready guides for homes and businesses provide critical steps, based on the latest wildfire research, to address ignition risk and lay out a pathway for property owners to build wildfire resilience. 

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.  

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.