Data & Coverage
Decades of Disasters. Enriched with the Details That Matter.
Historical catastrophe events. Geographic footprints. Severity. Associated impacts. AI-ready intelligence.
Understanding disaster risk requires more than knowing when and where an event occurred.
DisasterAWARE provides an extensive historical disaster intelligence database containing approximately 680,000 catastrophe and hazard events across more than 30 hazard types, combining event records with available geographic footprints, intensity measurements, temporal information, and associated impacts.
From historical hurricane wind fields and earthquake shaking to tornado tracks, hail swaths, wildfire evolution, and flood observations, our enriched datasets help organizations understand the geographic reality and consequences of past disasters.
Built for insurance, reinsurance, catastrophe analytics, risk intelligence, and AI-driven applications, DisasterAWARE makes historical catastrophe intelligence available through scalable bulk data delivery, structured metadata services, and AI-native querying.
Go beyond historical event lists. Understand what happened, where, how severe it was, and what followed.
A Richer Historical Record of Natural Disasters & Catastrophes.
Comprehensive Multi-Hazard Historical Database
Access a broad historical catalog of natural disasters, severe weather events, and other significant hazards from authoritative global and regional sources.
DisasterAWARE brings together approximately 680,000 historical event records across more than 30 hazard types within a structured intelligence framework.
Historical coverage includes:
Rather than requiring technology providers to independently aggregate and maintain numerous historical disaster sources, DisasterAWARE provides a unified foundation for accessing multi-hazard event intelligence.
Coverage, record depth, and available attributes vary by hazard, geography, and historical period.
- •Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones: Historical storm tracks, positions, intensity, and available wind radii.
- •Severe Convective Storms: Tornadoes, hail, damaging winds, and available storm reports.
- •Wildfires: Historical incidents, geographic perimeters, fire evolution, and associated event information.
- •Floods: Historical flood events, available hydrological observations, flood footprints, and depth information.
- •Earthquakes: Event locations, magnitudes, depths, and available ground-shaking information.
- •Additional Hazards: Other supported natural and human-induced events, depending on source and historical availability.
Enriched Geographic Footprints & Hazard Severity
A point on a map rarely tells the complete story of a catastrophe.
DisasterAWARE enriches historical event records with available geographic footprints and severity information to help customers understand the areas affected and the intensity of the underlying hazard.
Examples include:
Severe Convective Storms
Historical tornado tracks, damage paths, radar-derived hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, damaging wind observations, and available geographic storm footprints.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Historical cyclone tracks, storm positions, intensity information, and available wind radii that help characterize geographic wind exposure.
Earthquakes
Event locations, magnitudes, depths, peak ground acceleration, and available geographic shaking intensity products.
Wildfires
Historical fire perimeters, satellite detections, and available information about fire growth and evolution.
Floods
Available flood extent, depth, hydrological measurements, and other supporting geographic observations.
These enhanced records help customers move beyond event occurrence toward more meaningful geographic and severity-based catastrophe analysis.
Event Evolution, Supporting Evidence & Associated Impacts
Disasters evolve over time, and their consequences often become clear only after additional observations and reports are collected.
DisasterAWARE's historical intelligence is designed to preserve and associate available event details, including:
We are expanding our repository of associated impacts to connect historical disasters with additional datasets, including insured losses, damaged buildings, utility outages, transportation interruptions, and other downstream consequences.
The objective is to build increasingly complete historical records that explain not only the physical characteristics of a disaster, but also its real-world consequences.
- •Event timing, duration, and geographic progression.
- •Updated locations, tracks, and evolving hazard footprints.
- •Measured, estimated, and modeled intensity information.
- •Supporting observations and authoritative source records.
- •Reported fatalities, injuries, displacement, and other humanitarian impacts.
- •Available physical damage, economic loss, and operational disruption information.
From event occurrence to geographic evidence, severity, and documented impacts.
Enterprise-Scale Data Delivery & AI-Native Access
Historical catastrophe intelligence becomes more valuable when it can be integrated directly into analytical platforms, applications, and AI workflows.
DisasterAWARE supports scalable access to historical intelligence through multiple delivery methods.
Bulk Historical Data
Access large historical datasets through Parquet files delivered using Amazon S3 and supported secure download workflows.
Structured Event Metadata
Retrieve supported event information and metadata through REST API services.
AI-Native Historical Queries
Use DisasterAWARE's Historical Intelligence MCP server to enable AI-assisted discovery and analysis of historical disaster information.
Geospatial Integration
Incorporate available geographic footprints and associated event information into mapping, spatial analysis, and catastrophe analytics workflows.
These delivery options allow technology partners to integrate historical disaster intelligence into existing data platforms without relying exclusively on interactive dashboards or manual downloads.
Historical intelligence designed for modern data pipelines, analytics, and AI applications.
Why Disasteraware Is Different
More Than a Historical Disaster Archive.
Approximately 680,000 Historical Events
Access an extensive multi-hazard catastrophe catalog spanning more than 30 hazard types.
Geographic Footprints Beyond Event Coordinates
Explore available tornado tracks, hail swaths, cyclone wind radii, wildfire perimeters, flood extents, and earthquake shaking footprints.
Detailed Severity & Intensity Information
Use available hazard measurements, modeled estimates, intensity classifications, and supporting observations to characterize past events.
Event Evolution & Temporal Context
Understand how selected disasters developed and changed over time through available tracks, detections, perimeters, and historical updates.
Associated Humanitarian & Physical Impacts
Connect historical events with available information about fatalities, injuries, displacement, damage, and other reported consequences.
Scalable Data & AI-Native Delivery
Integrate historical intelligence through Parquet/S3 bulk delivery, structured metadata APIs, and MCP-enabled historical queries.
Connected to Live Disaster Intelligence
Combine historical catastrophe records with DisasterAWARE's real-time warnings, observed hazard intelligence, and exposure capabilities to support analysis across the disaster lifecycle.
Featured Intelligence Workflow
From Historical Event Records to Actionable Catastrophe Intelligence
DisasterAWARE transforms fragmented historical disaster information into structured, enriched datasets that technology partners can integrate into their products and analytical workflows.
Aggregate — Bring Together Historical Sources
Collect and organize supported historical disaster information from authoritative meteorological, geological, hydrological, wildfire, and other scientific and government sources.
Normalize — Create Consistent Event Records
Standardize available hazard classifications, event identifiers, locations, timestamps, and relevant attributes.
Preserve source context and supporting information where available.
Enrich — Connect Footprints, Severity & Impacts
Associate historical events with geographic footprints, intensity measurements, temporal evolution, and available reported consequences.
Support deeper analysis than event location and date alone.
Deliver — Power Analytics & AI Applications
Provide enriched historical intelligence through bulk datasets, structured metadata services, and AI-native query interfaces.
Enable catastrophe research, portfolio analysis, historical validation, and automated intelligence workflows.
Featured Capability: Historical Severe Convective Storm Intelligence
Understand Where Damaging Storms Actually Occurred.
Severe convective storms are among the most consequential natural hazards for property insurers, reinsurers, and catastrophe analytics providers.
Yet historical storm records can be fragmented across warning archives, local storm reports, radar-derived products, and event databases.
DisasterAWARE brings together available historical evidence to provide a richer understanding of hail, damaging winds, and tornado activity.
Historical Hail Intelligence
Access available radar-derived hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, storm reports, and geographic evidence of hail activity.
Historical Tornado Intelligence
Explore tornado tracks, reported paths, damage survey information, and available intensity classifications.
Historical Damaging Wind Intelligence
Review available severe wind observations, storm reports, and geographic information about significant wind events.
Geographic Exposure Analysis
Combine historical hazard footprints with property portfolios or other asset locations to understand potential past exposure.
Catastrophe Research & Validation
Use historical observations and geographic event evidence to support catastrophe model research, claims analysis, and retrospective event validation.
The advantage: Historical intelligence that helps explain where damaging conditions occurred—not simply where storms were reported.
Built On Authoritative Historical Sources
Decades of Disaster Records. Enriched Through Applied Science.
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in decades of applied science and disaster management expertise developed through the Pacific Disaster Center.
Our historical intelligence combines authoritative event catalogs, scientific observations, geographic hazard products, and available reported impacts into a connected disaster data foundation.
Rather than relying on a single historical source, DisasterAWARE brings together multiple datasets to improve the breadth and analytical value of historical catastrophe records.
Tropical Cyclone Records
Incorporate authoritative historical cyclone information, including IBTrACS and available best-track and wind-radius data.
Severe Storm & Tornado Records
Combine available NOAA and other supported historical severe weather information, including tornado paths, storm reports, hail observations, and damaging wind data.
Wildfire Records
Integrate historical wildfire incidents, perimeters, satellite detections, and available information about fire evolution from supported national and regional sources.
Earthquake Records
Use authoritative earthquake catalogs and available USGS ground-shaking products to characterize historical seismic events.
Flood & Hydrological Records
Incorporate available flood event information, water-level observations, remote sensing products, and scientific flood extent or depth estimates.
Historical Impact Reporting
Associate available reports of casualties, displacement, physical damage, economic consequences, and other impacts with relevant disaster events.
Nine Ways Disasteraware Supports Enterprise Workflows
Turn Historical Disaster Records into More Valuable Risk Intelligence.
Catastrophe Model Research & Validation
Use historical event footprints, severity information, and available observations to support catastrophe model research, validation, and retrospective event analysis.
Insurance Underwriting & Property Risk
Evaluate historical hazard activity near insured properties and portfolios to support geographic risk research and underwriting workflows.
Reinsurance & Portfolio Analytics
Integrate historical catastrophe intelligence into portfolio analysis, event research, exposure assessment, and catastrophe analytics applications.
Claims Research & Historical Event Verification
Review available historical hail swaths, tornado tracks, damaging wind observations, flood extents, and other evidence to investigate past hazard conditions near properties.
Risk Intelligence & Security Platforms
Provide customers with historical context about significant natural disasters and disruptive events affecting locations of interest.
Supply Chain & Location Risk Analytics
Explore historical hazard activity near suppliers, manufacturing facilities, distribution centers, transportation corridors, and other operational locations.
Business Continuity & Resilience Planning
Use past disaster events, severity information, and available consequences to inform preparedness, continuity planning, and scenario development.
AI Training, Retrieval & Knowledge Applications
Use structured historical catastrophe intelligence to support AI-assisted research, retrieval, contextual analysis, and specialized risk intelligence applications.
Disaster Impact & Decision Intelligence
Connect historical hazard footprints, geographic exposure, and associated consequences to support increasingly sophisticated analysis of disaster outcomes and future decision-support capabilities.
Related Products & Data Capabilities
One Intelligence Foundation. Historical Evidence Connected to Live Events.
Historical Disaster Intelligence complements DisasterAWARE's real-time hazard monitoring, observed event intelligence, exposure analysis, and geographic data services.
Together, these capabilities help organizations understand disasters across time—from past events to developing threats and their consequences.
Related Data Capabilities
Warnings & Predictive Intelligence
Access authoritative global warnings, proprietary flood and landslide early-warning intelligence, predictive geospatial indicators, and information about anticipated disruptions.
Observed Hazard Intelligence
Understand where current disasters actually occur through available observations, geographic footprints, severity measurements, and evolving event records.
Exposure & Impact Intelligence
Connect hazard footprints with potentially exposed assets, populations, infrastructure, and available reports of disaster consequences.
Global Coverage & Sources
Explore DisasterAWARE's authoritative data integrations, supported geographies, source coverage, and underlying scientific information.
Geospatial Data Layers
Access geographic hazard, exposure, vulnerability, environmental, and contextual intelligence to support spatial analysis and risk assessment.
Related Hazard Intelligence
Severe Convective Storms — Hail, Wind & Tornadoes
Explore historical hail swaths, tornado tracks, damaging wind observations, derechos, and supporting severe storm evidence.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Access historical storm tracks, intensity information, wind radii, and geographic cyclone footprints.
Wildfires
Explore historical wildfire incidents, perimeters, satellite detections, fire evolution, and available impact information.
Floods
Access historical flood events, available inundation extents, water-level observations, estimated depths, and supporting hydrological information.
Earthquakes & Tsunamis
Review historical earthquake catalogs, event locations, magnitudes, depths, shaking intensity information, and available tsunami-related records.
Man-Made & Operational Threats
Explore available historical records of human-induced incidents and operational disruptions, including geographic event information and reported consequences.
Understand the Past. Build Better Intelligence for What Comes Next.
Every historical disaster contains valuable information about the hazards that occurred, the locations affected, and the consequences that followed. DisasterAWARE brings these records together into an enriched historical catastrophe intelligence foundation, combining event data, geographic footprints, severity, temporal context, and available associated impacts. From insurance and catastrophe analytics to risk intelligence platforms and AI-powered applications, our historical datasets help technology partners build more informed products and analytical workflows. And as our repository of associated impacts expands, we're building toward a future in which historical and real-time disaster intelligence can help organizations understand not only what happened—but what matters and what actions may be needed next.