FEMA National Risk Index alternatives

3 tools to consider instead of FEMA National Risk Index, shown against it.

FEMA National Risk Index USGS Earthquake Hazards Program Verisk Extreme Event Solutions One Concern
Vendor Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) U.S. Geological Survey Verisk Analytics One Concern
Pricing model Free Free Quote only Quote only
Free tier Yes Yes No No
Deployment Cloud Cloud Cloud, Self-hosted Cloud
Open source No No No No
Best for Emergency managers, planners and analysts benchmarking relative disaster risk across US communities. Engineers, planners, insurers and researchers needing authoritative, free US seismic hazard data. Insurers, reinsurers and ILS managers pricing and reserving for natural catastrophe risk. Capital markets, insurance and real estate teams assessing infrastructure-driven physical climate risk.
Pricing

Free federal government dataset and tool, funded and maintained by FEMA.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Free federal government program; all data, maps and tools are publicly funded and openly available.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Licensed per model/territory to insurers and reinsurers; pricing is quote-only and not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Enterprise licensing for financial services, insurance and real estate customers; pricing is quote-only and not published.

Pricing has not been verified yet — see the vendor's site.

Features
  • 0–100 composite risk score for every US county and census tract
  • Coverage of 18 natural hazard types
  • Combines Expected Annual Loss, Social Vulnerability and Community Resilience
  • Interactive web map for exploring county- and tract-level risk
  • Downloadable datasets via OpenFEMA
  • Publicly documented scoring methodology
  • National Seismic Hazard Model probabilistic ground-motion maps
  • Near-real-time ShakeMap shaking-intensity maps after earthquakes
  • Unified Hazard Tool for site-specific hazard curves
  • Design ground-motion values for building codes
  • Global and US earthquake monitoring and catalogs
  • Earthquake Hazard Toolbox for exploring NSHM data
  • Probabilistic catastrophe models for hurricane, earthquake, severe convective storm, flood and wildfire
  • Touchstone modelling and portfolio-analytics platform
  • Exceedance-probability loss curves for pricing and reserving
  • Coverage across 110+ countries
  • Climate-conditioned catastrophe model variants
  • Insurance-linked securities and reinsurance analytics
  • Site-specific engineering risk analysis
  • Terrorism, pandemic and cyber catastrophe models
  • AI-modelled digital twin of infrastructure networks
  • Time-based resilience/downtime metric for properties and portfolios
  • Power outage and grid-failure risk modelling
  • Supply-chain disruption risk analysis
  • Business-interruption risk scoring
  • Coverage of earthquake, flood, wildfire and severe-storm hazards

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