Disaster Safety Blog

Richburg, S.C., February 8, 2022 – Before severe weather threatens, the Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) encourages Americans to prepare their homes and businesses with targeted actions to reduce the impact of storms and be thunderstorm ready. Every year, severe thunderstorms lead to hail-damaged roofs, wind-damaged garage doors and roofs, and all too often, structural damage that forces people from their homes and workplaces. IBHS’s Thunderstorm Ready and Thunderstorm Ready–Business guides can help home and business owners proactively protect their properties this spring to reduce the potential for costly damage and disruption.

Richburg, S.C., January 27, 2022 – The Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety (IBHS) has expanded FORTIFIED, its voluntary, beyond-code, resilient construction program, with a designation designed to fill a void in climate resilience for the U.S. housing market. The new FORTIFIED Multifamily™ standard lays the path for multifamily developers, owners and property managers to offer residents homes built or retrofitted to perform better in severe weather, including powerful high winds and heavy rain from thunderstorms, derechos, hurricanes and even tornadoes.

Beyond slippery sidewalks, winter weather can cause structural damage from heavy snow loads and interior water damage from burst pipes. Winter Weather Ready and Winter Weather Ready—Business detail how home and business owners can prepare their property to reduce the likelihood of costly damage this season by providing steps to take before and after winter weather.

Non-profit’s preparedness guide, app offer actions to prepare homes ahead of fall’s windy conditions based on scientific research