Success Stories & Blogs

Introducing BirdsEyeView's New Hail Model

BirdsEyeView has launched a new proprietary severe hail model covering the contiguous US, resolved to 4km — roughly 39x finer than existing vendor hail models. Built on StormWise, BirdsEyeView's in-house storm-tracking algorithm, the model reconstructs full historic hail swaths rather than relying on sparse, urban-biased storm reports, delivering annual occurrence rate and return period data at the industry's standard ≥1" severe hail threshold. It's live now in CERA®.

Hurricane Season Report

The Atlantic has produced five named storms and not one hurricane by the start of September, the slowest opening to a season in almost four decades. The reinsurance market has spent the year pricing as though the pattern will hold.

Europe's Wildfire Emergency

Wildfires are burning across France, Spain and Greece this July, with more than 15 lives lost, over 300,000 people evacuated, and 250,000+ hectares burned across the EU so far this year — including France's largest peacetime evacuation since 1945. From Almería's deadliest Spanish wildfire in two decades to a pyrocumulonimbus event recorded for the first time in southwest France, we break down where the fires are burning, why this season turned so severe, and what the industry is watching.

Pricing Lightning Risk at Live Events

What the World Cup delays show contingency underwriters, and the model we built to price it.

Modelling Wildfire Risk at Fine Scale

An updated wildfire model for North America and Australia — retrained on two decades of satellite burned-area data and resolved to the scale underwriters price on.

Partnership Announcement with Market Lane

BirdsEyeView has entered a multi-year partnership with Market Lane Insurance Group, one of Australia's largest independently owned Lloyd's Coverholders. Market Lane and its associated brands will use BirdsEyeView's CERA® platform for natural catastrophe risk assessment and exposure management, as the company continues expanding its footprint across the Australian and New Zealand insurance markets.

Partnership Announcement with Austagencies

BirdsEyeView has partnered with austagencies to bring CERA® to the Australian property insurance market. The austagencies group — spanning SURA, SUU (Strata Unit Underwriters), Rubix Underwriting, and Longitude Insurance — will use CERA® to model and price natural catastrophe risk across all primary and secondary perils, covering their property and construction exposures nationwide.

A Look at Lightning: Our Experts Explore Our In House Model

This article explores how BirdsEyeView’s high-resolution modelling addresses the $1 billion annual cost of lightning claims by providing granular, microsecond-accurate data for insurers. Using real-world examples like the "Eras Tour" delays, it demonstrates how shifting from coarse regional maps to precise, 5km-grid analytics is essential for modern property and contingency underwriting.

BirdsEyeView Launches Machine Learning Australian Bushfire Model for Insurance Markets

BirdsEyeView has announced that its Machine Learning Australian Bushfire Model is now live and actively being used by Lloyd’s syndicates and Australian MGAs to support risk selection and pricing across Property and Construction portfolios.

BirdsEyeView Secures Seven-Figure Investment to Accelerate Global Expansion

BirdsEyeView, the European Space Agency-backed insurtech specializing in natural catastrophe modelling and exposure management, has secured an undisclosed seven-figure investment to support the company’s continued international growth and ongoing product development.

Introducing AI Data Scrubbing: Streamlining Exposure Data for Faster Hazard Modelling

Exposure data sits at the heart of effective catastrophe and hazard modelling.

Bridging Research and Risk Modelling: Guest Lecture at Imperial College London

This week, we were proud to see our colleague Dr Ricky Nathvani, Senior Geospatial Data Scientist at BirdsEyeView, return to the academic classroom as a guest lecturer at Imperial College London.

The Data Behind the Fire: A Look Into Our Wildfire Model

Wildfires now result in nearly 6 million more hectares of tree cover loss per year than in 2001, an area the size of Croatia.