Dixie Fire, 2nd largest wildfire in the history of wildfires in California, has burned almost 1 million acres during the summer. According to CalFire, about 3,600 structures were affected by...

California’s Dixie Fire has been exploding in size in recent days due to high winds and hot temperatures. Currently the fire is in the top 20 of largest fires in...

We are happy to announce that we’ve added parcel and permit data to our location based datasets. Like the majority of our datasets, this data covers all 50 states with...

Since the inception of our company, we have primarily focused on understanding the risk of customers who already applied for an insurance policy or customers that are up for renewals....

Chicago, IL – 02/03/2021 | UrbanStat, a leading provider of underwriting solutions for P&C insurance companies, has expanded its proprietary wildfire risk maps’ coverage to 4 more states. UrbanStat Wildfire...

We hate the ZIP codes. We truly hate all administrative boundaries not just ZIP codes when it comes to socio-economics and catastrophe modeling.

Before the wildfire season of 2019, we’ve released our very first wildfire risk map for California. All of our tests based on decades of historical wildfire showed that the “accuracy*”...

Using machine-learning to underwrite property insurance has been UrbanStat’s main focus for the last 3 years. It started as a simple Minimum Viable Product (MVP), we had our highs and...

Over 30 wildfires sparked in California within just a few days, most of them were contained quickly though two have grown to large wildfires. “Since the beginning of the year,...

Chicago, IL – 09/03/2020 | UrbanStat, a leading provider of underwriting solutions for P&C insurance companies, has expanded its data coverage to over 35 countries globally covering most countries in...

Here at UrbanStat, we’ve been researching and modeling wildfires for about 2 years now. When we first started thinking about this phenomenon, we were shocked to see that most models...