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Explore DisasterAWARE Data.
Discover historical catastrophe intelligence, geographic hazard footprints, and geospatial datasets available for your applications.
DisasterAWARE provides technology companies, data partners, and developers with access to enriched global disaster, severe weather, and impact intelligence.
Explore representative datasets and existing data resources to better understand the geographic coverage, event characteristics, hazard footprints, and supporting information available through DisasterAWARE.
From historical earthquakes and hurricanes to severe convective storms, wildfires, floods, and geospatial intelligence layers, our data helps power catastrophe analytics, insurance technology, risk intelligence, supply chain monitoring, and AI-powered applications.
Explore the intelligence. Understand the coverage. Evaluate the possibilities.
What Data Is Available?
One Intelligence Foundation. Multiple Categories of Data.
DisasterAWARE combines historical disaster records, observed hazard intelligence, geographic information, and available event-associated impacts into datasets designed for enterprise integration.
Historical Catastrophe Intelligence
Explore an enriched repository of approximately 680,000 historical disaster events across more than 30 hazard types.
Depending on the hazard and available sources, historical intelligence can include:
Historical coverage and completeness vary by hazard type, geographic region, and time period.
- •Event identification, classification, and timing
- •Geographic locations and event tracks
- •Hazard-specific severity and intensity information
- •Geographic footprints and affected areas
- •Event progression and evolution
- •Available reported impacts and consequences
Observed Hazard & Severe Weather Intelligence
Explore available information about observed and reported hazardous conditions.
Examples include:
These datasets can help applications investigate where hazardous conditions occurred and the geographic areas potentially affected.
- •Hail observations and estimated hail sizes
- •Geographic hail swaths
- •Damaging wind observations and footprints
- •Tornado tracks and reported characteristics
- •Wildfire detections and perimeters
- •Flood extent and inundation information
- •Earthquake ground-shaking intensity
Geospatial Intelligence Layers
Explore more than 300 geographic intelligence layers spanning natural hazards, weather, forecasts, infrastructure, population, vulnerability, and geographic risk.
Available layers support mapping, geographic analysis, and exposure visualization.
Event-Associated Impact Intelligence
DisasterAWARE incorporates available information about the reported consequences of disasters, including fatalities, injuries, displacement, and damage.
Our expanding intelligence strategy also includes connecting additional impact information—such as infrastructure damage, insured losses, outages, and operational disruptions—to historical and developing catastrophe events.
These additional impact categories represent areas of ongoing data expansion and should not be assumed to be available across all current datasets.
Explore Historical Catastrophe Data
Discover the Depth of DisasterAWARE's Historical Intelligence.
Explore our existing historical hazard data resources to understand the types of catastrophe information available for evaluation and integration.
Hurricanes & Tropical Cyclones
Explore historical tropical cyclone activity, including available storm tracks, intensity information, wind characteristics, and geographic footprints.
Historical cyclone intelligence can support catastrophe research, property risk analysis, underwriting, and geographic event investigation.
- Explore:
- [<u>Hurricane & Tropical Cyclone Data</u>](https://explore.disasteraware.com/hurricane-data/)
Earthquakes
Explore historical earthquake events, including available magnitude, depth, geographic locations, and shaking intensity information.
Earthquake intelligence can support seismic risk analysis, catastrophe research, and geographic exposure assessment.
- Explore:
- [<u>Earthquake Data</u>](https://explore.disasteraware.com/earthquake-data/)
Severe Convective Storms
Explore historical severe storm intelligence covering hail, damaging winds, tornadoes, and related storm activity.
Available information may include hail observations, estimated hail sizes, geographic swaths, damaging wind footprints, tornado tracks, and supporting event characteristics.
These datasets can support insurance analytics, claims research, catastrophe modeling, and historical severe weather analysis.
- Explore:
- [<u>Severe Convective Storm Data</u>](https://explore.disasteraware.com/severe-convective-storm-data/)
Wildfires
Explore historical wildfire intelligence, including available incident information, geographic perimeters, event progression, and supporting observations.
Wildfire datasets can support catastrophe research, property exposure analysis, and geographic risk investigation.
- Explore:
- [<u>Wildfire Data</u>](https://explore.disasteraware.com/wildfire-data/)
Floods
Explore historical flood events and available geographic flood intelligence.
Depending on the dataset, information may include flood locations, geographic extent, inundation characteristics, and supporting event information.
Flood intelligence can support property risk assessment, catastrophe research, and geographic exposure analysis.
- Explore:
- [<u>Flood Data</u>](https://explore.disasteraware.com/flood-data/)
Looking for Another Hazard Type?
DisasterAWARE's historical intelligence covers additional natural disaster and severe weather categories beyond the examples shown here.
Contact our team to discuss the hazard types, geographic areas, historical periods, and data attributes relevant to your application.
Explore Geospatial Intelligence
Geographic Intelligence Built for Mapping & Analysis.
DisasterAWARE provides access to more than 300 geospatial intelligence layers that help applications understand geographic hazards, environmental conditions, vulnerability, and exposure.
Our existing geospatial resources allow developers to explore available layer categories and identify datasets relevant to their applications.
Sample Geospatial Layers
Explore representative layers to understand the types of geographic information available through DisasterAWARE.
Full Geospatial Layer Catalog
Browse the broader collection of supported geographic intelligence layers across available categories.
Geospatial Integration Information
Review existing guidance about accessing and integrating supported geographic intelligence layers.
Common Applications
Risk Mapping
Display supported hazard and environmental information within geographic applications.
Exposure Analysis
Combine available geographic intelligence with customer-supplied property or facility locations.
Insurance Analytics
Support geographic catastrophe investigation and property risk analysis.
Supply Chain Monitoring
Investigate hazards and environmental conditions near important operational locations.
GIS & Spatial Applications
Integrate supported geographic datasets into existing mapping and analytical environments.
Understanding Data Formats & Delivery
Flexible Data Access for Different Technical Requirements.
Different applications require different approaches to data integration.
DisasterAWARE supports multiple delivery methods depending on the intelligence being accessed.
Historical Bulk Data — Parquet via S3
Supported historical catastrophe datasets can be delivered as Parquet files through Amazon S3.
This approach is well suited for large-scale data processing, analytical pipelines, data warehouses, and catastrophe modeling workflows.
REST APIs
DisasterAWARE's enterprise APIs provide structured access to supported hazard and event intelligence.
The production V2 API documentation describes available endpoints, response structures, and integration requirements.
Webhooks
Supported hazard updates can be delivered to configured customer endpoints for event-driven applications.
Geospatial Services
Supported geographic intelligence can be accessed through available geospatial integration methods, depending on the dataset and service.
MCP Servers
Supported historical and live disaster intelligence can be accessed through MCP integrations for compatible AI applications.
Choosing the Right Format
| Application Requirement | Recommended Access Method | |:-------------------------------------------:|-------------------------------| | Large-scale historical catastrophe analysis | Parquet / S3 | | Real-time event intelligence | REST API | | Automated hazard updates | Webhooks | | GIS and geographic visualization | Geospatial services | | AI-native disaster intelligence | MCP servers |
Available formats, data schemas, and access requirements vary by product and dataset.
Evaluate Data For Your Application
Find the Intelligence That Fits Your Requirements.
When evaluating disaster intelligence, the value of a dataset depends on more than the number of events it contains.
DisasterAWARE helps technology partners identify relevant intelligence based on several considerations.
Hazard Coverage
Which natural disasters, severe weather events, or operational threats are relevant to your application?
Geographic Coverage
Which countries, regions, or geographic areas are important to your customers?
Historical Depth
How much historical information is available for the hazard types and locations you need?
Geographic Precision
Does your application require event coordinates, geographic tracks, observed footprints, intensity surfaces, or other spatial features?
Event Attributes & Enrichment
Which severity indicators, hazard characteristics, source information, or reported impacts are required?
Update Frequency
Does your application require continuously updated event intelligence, periodic datasets, or historical archives?
Integration Requirements
Would your application benefit most from APIs, webhooks, bulk datasets, geospatial services, or MCP tools?
Our team can help determine which available datasets and delivery options align with your technical and commercial requirements.
Applications Powered By Disaster Intelligence
Built for Technology Partners Across Multiple Industries.
Insurance & Reinsurance
Incorporate historical catastrophe records, hazard footprints, severity information, and available impacts into underwriting, claims, portfolio analytics, and catastrophe research.
Risk Intelligence & Security
Integrate real-time hazards, geographic context, and supporting disaster intelligence into monitoring and operational risk applications.
Supply Chain & Logistics
Connect natural disasters, severe weather, and supported operational disruptions with suppliers, facilities, and transportation networks.
Business Continuity & Resilience
Use hazard and geographic intelligence to support preparedness, incident awareness, and operational resilience workflows.
GIS & Geospatial Platforms
Enhance mapping and spatial applications with available hazard, weather, infrastructure, and vulnerability datasets.
AI & Data Platforms
Combine historical catastrophe intelligence, live hazard information, and available impacts with analytical systems and AI-powered applications.
Explore the Intelligence Behind Your Next Application.
Whether you're evaluating historical catastrophe records, observed severe weather footprints, geospatial intelligence layers, or real-time disaster data, DisasterAWARE can help you identify the appropriate datasets. Our team works with technology partners to understand their use cases, geographic requirements, integration preferences, and evaluation needs. Explore our existing public data resources or request additional information about the intelligence available for your application.