RiskMeter Announces Top Ten Tornado Prone Areas - Denver, CO tops list
Written by RiskMeter
Tuesday, 08 July 2008
Boston, MA, July 2008 - CDS Business Mapping, LLC a leader in online hazard mapping, today announced its list of the top ten tornado prone metro-areas. This list is based on the RiskMeter Online’s Tornado Model, which predicts the severity of tornadoes for any location in the Continental United States.
According to a report just released by the RiskMeter Online, the following top ten tornado prone metro-areas are as follows:
1.) Denver, CO*
2.) Houston, TX
3.) Miami, FL
4.) Hollywood, FL
5.) Tampa, FL
6.) Lincoln, IL
7.) Lakeland, FL
8.) Little Rock, AR
9.) Cape Coral, FL
10.) Oklahoma City, OK
*Not downtown, but a rural area to the northeast.
Tornado exposure has and will always be a consistent threat to insurers. According to the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), in an average year the U.S. experiences 1,200 tornadoes, which kills 55 Americans, injures 1,500 and causes more than $400 million in damage. For a free copy of the RiskMeter Tornado report, please contact Daniel Munson, VP of Sales & Marketing at 617.737.4444 or dmunson@cdsys.com
About RiskMeter.com
The RiskMeter is used by underwriters and agents to automate property lookups. The RiskMeter utilizes Internet mapping technology to enable underwriters to determine the proximity to natural hazards for any property in the Unites States. The RiskMeter is far more accurate and faster than any other method of property lookups, and can save underwriters considerable time and money. The Risk Meter performs many types of lookups, including distance to coast, windpool eligibility, rating territories (company specific), proximity to brush, earthquake information, flood zones and others.
About CDS Business Mapping
CDS Business Mapping, LLC., was founded in 1994 as a desktop mapping sales and consulting company. The company offers a full line of mapping software, data and applications for insurers. The company specializes in natural hazard risk assessment tools and data. The company is dedicated to the creation and implementation of mapping solutions for the insurance industry.
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