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Know What Actually Happened. Not Just What Was Forecast.
Near-real-time hazard observations. Geographic event footprints. Measured and estimated severity.
DisasterAWARE delivers observed natural disaster and severe weather intelligence that helps organizations understand where hazards actually occurred, how severe they were, and how events evolved.
From observed hail swaths, tornado tracks, and damaging wind footprints to wildfire detections, flood measurements, hurricane wind fields, and earthquake shaking, our intelligence goes beyond forecasts and warnings to provide evidence of real-world hazard conditions.
Combine near-real-time observations with enriched historical catastrophe records, geographic hazard footprints, and available impact information to support insurance, risk intelligence, supply chain, and operational decision-making.
Access structured event intelligence through enterprise APIs, webhooks, historical data services, and AI-native integrations.
From what was predicted to what actually occurred.
Understand the Actual Location, Extent & Severity of Disasters.
Observed Severe Convective Storm Intelligence
Severe thunderstorms can produce damaging hail, destructive winds, tornadoes, and widespread impacts that extend beyond the areas originally identified in weather warnings.
DisasterAWARE combines authoritative storm reports, radar-derived observations, and geographic hazard intelligence to provide a more detailed picture of actual severe convective storm activity.
Available intelligence includes:
By combining warnings with observed storm intelligence, DisasterAWARE helps customers distinguish where severe conditions were anticipated from where damaging weather was actually detected or reported.
These capabilities support insurance claims triage, catastrophe event validation, property exposure analysis, and operational risk monitoring.
- •Observed Hail Swaths: Geographic footprints derived from radar and other supported observations, including estimated hail sizes and affected areas.
- •Tornado Tracks & Damage Paths: Reported and surveyed tornado locations, paths, intensity information, and associated geographic evidence.
- •Damaging Wind Intelligence: Reported severe wind observations, measured wind speeds where available, and geographic representations of damaging wind activity.
- •Derechos & Widespread Wind Events: Information about organized, extensive damaging wind events and their associated geographic impacts.
- •Storm Reports & Severity: Authoritative local storm reports and available measurements that help characterize event intensity.
Observed Wildfire Intelligence & Event Evolution
Wildfires are dynamic events. Their locations, geographic footprints, and potential consequences can change rapidly.
DisasterAWARE integrates satellite-based fire detections, authoritative wildfire incident information, and available fire perimeter data to provide ongoing awareness of active wildfire conditions.
Available intelligence includes:
DisasterAWARE combines multiple detection and incident sources to improve awareness of developing wildfire activity, including situations where satellite observations become available before a corresponding official incident record.
Understand where wildfire activity has been detected, how its footprint is evolving, and which nearby locations may warrant attention.
- •Satellite Fire Detections: Active fire observations from NASA FIRMS and other supported sources.
- •Wildfire Incident Locations: Identified wildfire events and associated geographic information.
- •Evolving Fire Perimeters: Available mapped fire boundaries that help explain the geographic extent of an incident.
- •Fire Growth & Evolution: Updated information as additional detections, perimeters, and authoritative incident records become available.
- •Additional Wildfire Context: Available information about fire severity, evacuation areas, smoke, and reported impacts, depending on geographic and source coverage.
Observed Flood, Hurricane & Earthquake Intelligence
DisasterAWARE combines environmental measurements, remote sensing, authoritative event reports, and scientific hazard models to characterize actual disaster conditions across multiple hazards.
Flood Measurements, Depths & Extents
Access available hydrological observations, including river gauge and water-level measurements, alongside flood extent and depth information derived from supported remote sensing and modeling sources.
For U.S. flooding, this includes USGS observations and other available scientific and government datasets.
Distinguish measured water conditions, remotely sensed inundation, and modeled flood estimates to better understand where flooding has occurred and how severe conditions may be.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Follow observed tropical cyclone positions, reported intensity, wind measurements, and available wind-field information.
Connect storm tracks and observed conditions with geographic wind footprints, historical cyclone records, and available reports of flooding, damage, and other consequences.
Earthquakes & Tsunamis
Access authoritative earthquake observations, including event locations, magnitudes, depths, and available shaking intensity information.
USGS ShakeMap products provide geographic estimates of shaking severity based on available measurements and scientific modeling.
For tsunami events, complement earthquake observations with available tsunami warnings, measurements, and other authoritative information about coastal conditions.
Together, these datasets help explain the actual geographic extent and severity of major natural disasters.
Continuously Enriched Hazard Events & Historical Evidence
An observed disaster is rarely represented by a single data point.
New observations, geographic footprints, measurements, and impact reports may become available over minutes, hours, days, or longer.
DisasterAWARE brings these evolving sources together within structured hazard records and associated geographic intelligence.
As additional information becomes available, event intelligence can be enriched with updated locations, severity measurements, geographic footprints, source information, and available reported impacts.
The same intelligence foundation extends into DisasterAWARE's historical catastrophe data, supporting retrospective analysis of past disasters.
Enterprise partners can access supported real-time hazard information through APIs, webhooks, and AI-native integrations, with enriched historical records available through bulk data and query services.
One intelligence foundation connecting developing events with the evidence that emerges over time.
Why Disasteraware Is Different
More Than Event Alerts. Evidence of What Actually Occurred.
From Forecasts to Observed Reality
Go beyond warning polygons and forecast areas with available evidence of actual hazard locations, footprints, and severity.
Detailed Geographic Hazard Footprints
Access hail swaths, tornado tracks, damaging wind areas, wildfire perimeters, flood extents, earthquake shaking footprints, and other geographic event information.
Measured, Detected & Estimated Severity
Combine available measurements, radar observations, satellite detections, scientific estimates, and authoritative reports to characterize hazard intensity.
Continuous Event Enrichment
Follow evolving disasters as new observations, updated geographic information, and additional event details become available.
Multiple Authoritative Sources, One Intelligence Partner
Reduce the burden of integrating and maintaining numerous meteorological, hydrological, satellite, scientific, and disaster management data sources.
Near-Real-Time & Historical Intelligence
Connect current hazard observations with enriched historical catastrophe records to support immediate operational decisions and retrospective analysis.
Connected to Exposure & Reported Impacts
Extend observed hazard intelligence into geographic exposure analysis and available information about property damage, infrastructure disruption, human impacts, and other consequences.
Featured Intelligence Workflow
From Hazard Detection to Actionable Observed Intelligence
DisasterAWARE transforms measurements, detections, reports, and geographic hazard information into structured intelligence that technology partners can integrate into their products.
Detect — Identify Actual Hazard Activity
Ingest supported satellite observations, radar-derived data, environmental measurements, scientific products, and authoritative incident reports.
Identify and update hazard events as observations become available.
Correlate — Connect Observations to Events
Associate relevant observations, reports, and geographic information with developing or existing hazard records.
Help customers follow an evolving event rather than interpreting each observation as an isolated data point.
Enrich — Characterize Location, Extent & Severity
Incorporate available hazard footprints, measurements, estimated intensity, geographic boundaries, and other event details.
Preserve distinctions between observed, modeled, estimated, and reported information.
Deliver — Power Enterprise Decisions
Provide supported intelligence through APIs, webhooks, geospatial services, and historical data access.
Enable partners to integrate observed hazard information into catastrophe analytics, exposure monitoring, claims workflows, risk dashboards, and AI-assisted applications.
Featured Capability: From Severe Storm Warning to Observed Hail Damage Potential
Understand Where the Storm Actually Produced Damaging Conditions.
Consider a severe thunderstorm moving across a region containing thousands of insured properties.
Before the Storm — Warning Intelligence
Authoritative weather warnings identify geographic areas where damaging hail, severe winds, or tornadoes may occur.
During the Storm — Observed Hazard Intelligence
Radar-derived hail intelligence and available storm reports provide evidence about where hail occurred and its estimated severity.
After the Storm — Geographic Footprint & Severity
Observed hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, and additional event information help identify areas potentially affected by damaging conditions.
Exposure & Impact — Understand What May Have Been Affected
Overlay the hazard footprint with property locations or portfolios to identify potentially exposed assets.
Connect available reports of damage and other consequences as that information becomes available.
The result: More precise evidence about where damaging weather occurred—not simply where a warning was issued.
This same approach can extend across tornadoes, damaging winds, wildfires, floods, earthquakes, and other supported hazards.
Built On Authoritative Observations & Applied Science
Global Disaster Intelligence. Grounded in Real-World Evidence.
DisasterAWARE technology is rooted in decades of applied science and disaster management expertise developed through the Pacific Disaster Center.
Our observed hazard intelligence draws on authoritative government agencies, scientific institutions, satellite observations, environmental monitoring networks, and other supported sources.
By combining these datasets, DisasterAWARE helps technology partners move beyond fragmented observations toward a more consistent understanding of actual disaster events.
Radar & Meteorological Observations
Incorporate supported severe weather observations, including NOAA radar-derived hail intelligence, local storm reports, tornado information, and damaging wind measurements.
Satellite & Wildfire Observations
Combine NASA FIRMS fire detections with available national and regional wildfire incident and perimeter information, including U.S., Canadian, Australian, and European sources.
Hydrological Measurements & Flood Observations
Use available river gauge measurements, flood monitoring information, remotely sensed inundation, and modeled depth or extent products to characterize flood conditions.
Earthquake & Tropical Cyclone Observations
Incorporate authoritative earthquake measurements, USGS shaking intensity products, and tropical cyclone observations from supported meteorological agencies.
Scientific Enrichment & Geographic Analysis
Associate observed events with geographic footprints, intensity information, historical context, and available exposure and impact intelligence.
Nine Ways Disasteraware Supports Enterprise Workflows
Turn Observed Disasters into Actionable Customer Intelligence.
Insurance Claims Triage
Use observed hail swaths, tornado tracks, damaging wind information, flood extents, and other event footprints to help identify potentially affected insured properties and prioritize claims investigation.
Catastrophe Event Validation
Compare reported or modeled catastrophe activity with available real-world observations, measured severity, and authoritative event records.
Underwriting & Portfolio Analysis
Incorporate historical and observed hazard footprints into property risk analysis, portfolio evaluation, and catastrophe research.
Reinsurance & Catastrophe Analytics
Enrich catastrophe event datasets with observed geographic footprints, severity measurements, historical evidence, and available associated impacts.
Risk Intelligence & Security Platforms
Provide customers with information about where significant disasters actually occurred, how conditions evolved, and which operational locations may have been affected.
Supply Chain & Logistics Technology
Identify observed flooding, wildfire activity, severe storms, and other hazards near suppliers, distribution facilities, transportation corridors, and logistics assets.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Support post-event assessments by identifying significant hazard activity near facilities, employees, suppliers, and critical infrastructure.
Property & Asset Monitoring
Use observed hazard intelligence to identify buildings and other assets that may warrant inspection, maintenance, or follow-up after severe weather or natural disasters.
AI-Powered Risk & Decision Intelligence
Connect structured hazard observations, geographic footprints, historical records, and available impacts to support automated event analysis and location-specific risk questions.
Related Products & Data Capabilities
One Intelligence Foundation. From Early Warning to Observed Impact.
Observed Hazard Intelligence is a central component of DisasterAWARE's broader intelligence offering.
Connect evidence of actual disaster conditions with forecasts, exposure assessments, historical records, and available reports of downstream consequences.
Related Data Capabilities
Warnings & Predictive Intelligence
Anticipate developing threats through authoritative global warnings, proprietary flood and landslide early-warning intelligence, predictive geospatial information, and forward-looking disruption monitoring.
Understand what may happen before observed conditions become available.
Exposure & Impact Intelligence
Evaluate which assets, communities, populations, and infrastructure may intersect observed hazard footprints.
Connect hazard severity with potential exposure and available reports of damage, disruption, and other consequences.
Historical Disaster Database
Access enriched historical catastrophe records, including event locations, severity, geographic footprints, supporting observations, and available associated impacts.
Support historical event validation, catastrophe analysis, and long-term risk research.
Global Coverage & Sources
Explore authoritative data integrations, supported geographies, source coverage, and the scientific information behind DisasterAWARE's hazard intelligence.
Geospatial Data Layers
Access geographic hazard, environmental, exposure, vulnerability, and contextual intelligence through DisasterAWARE's extensive geospatial data collection.
Related Hazard Intelligence
Severe Convective Storms — Hail, Wind & Tornadoes
Explore radar-derived hail swaths, estimated hail sizes, tornado tracks, damaging wind observations, derechos, and enriched historical storm intelligence.
Wildfires
Access satellite fire detections, evolving wildfire perimeters, authoritative incident information, and available reports of wildfire impacts.
Floods
Explore flood warnings, river gauge observations, available flood depths and inundation extents, and enriched historical flood intelligence.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Follow observed tropical cyclone tracks, intensity measurements, wind radii, storm footprints, and historical catastrophe information.
Earthquakes & Tsunamis
Access earthquake locations, magnitudes, depths, shaking intensity information, tsunami observations, and available historical event data.
Man-Made & Operational Threats
Explore reported human-induced incidents and operational disruptions, including information about event locations, severity, and available consequences.
Know What Happened. Understand Where. Deliver Intelligence That Matters.
Forecasts and warnings help organizations prepare for what may happen. Observed intelligence helps them understand what actually occurred. DisasterAWARE combines authoritative observations, geographic hazard footprints, severity measurements, and continuously enriched event records to provide a more complete picture of natural disasters and severe weather. From hail swaths and tornado tracks to wildfire perimeters, flood observations, hurricane wind fields, and earthquake shaking, help your customers understand the geographic reality of major events. Connect observed hazards with exposure assessments, historical catastrophe intelligence, and available reported impacts—all through one enterprise intelligence partner.