Verisk has expanded its collaboration with the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) to provide wildfire risk and mitigation data from its Firewise USA recognition program to 12 additional states in the western U.S. Through this extended agreement, Verisk will now expand its license from California to mitigation insights for the remaining western coverage states, including Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. These mitigation insights can be previewed in newly developed Wildfire Risk Reports from Verisk. The reports also highlight the concentration of structures with high to extreme wildfire risk at the county level, risk in the Wildfire Urban Interface (WUI), construction insights, reconstruction trends, and claim severity totals.

Highlights from the Risk Reports include: Around 7% of properties are at high to extreme risk for wildfire across the 13 coverage states. Montana and Idaho have the highest risk concentration. California, a key state for regulatory reform, has nearly 8% of properties at high to extreme risk.

In the 13 states, 23% of structures are located in the intermix WUI (wildlife urban interface) and 33% of structures are locations in the interface WUI. The percentage of structures in the WUI are estimated by leveraging Verisk?s Industry Exposure Database and data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Over 1,700 communities in the 13 states are participating in the Firewise USA Program.