Verisk lifts global insured catastrophe loss benchmark to $171 billion average annual level, report says

• Verisk lifted its modeled global insured catastrophe loss benchmark to USD 171 billion average annual loss, up USD 19 billion.
• U.S. risk drove USD 117 billion, or 68%, despite no U.S. hurricane landfalls in 2025 and a sixth straight year above USD 100 billion.
• Severe thunderstorm risk led at 40% of modeled losses, ahead of tropical cyclone at 27% and earthquake at 10%.
• Modeled aggregate insured losses reached USD 477 billion at a 100-year return period, rising to USD 606 billion at 250-year.
• Verisk pegged global economic catastrophe losses above USD 450 billion, with only 38% insured, signaling a persistent protection gap.

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